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Teaching Mrs. Tingle [Region 2] | ![Teaching Mrs. Tingle [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/715TA6Y9FZL._SL500_.gif) | Director: Kevin Williamson
Actors: Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor, Barry Watson, Marisa Coughlan
Category: DVD
Buy Used: $6.20
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Seller: TWS-Source of Deluge
Rating:  101 reviews
Sales Rank: 256169
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Subtitled), German (Original Language), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 4006680018386
ASIN: B00004X074
Theatrical Release Date: August 20, 1999
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The poster for Teaching Mrs. Tingle may feature young TV cuties Katie Holmes (Dawson's Creek), Marisa Coughlin (Wasteland), and Barry Watson (Seventh Heaven), but the real star is the actress playing the title character: Helen Mirren. Mirren plays a bitter, tyrannical teacher who, due to circumstantial evidence, believes goody two-shoes Holmes is guilty of cheating on her history final. Holmes, Coughlin, and Watson go to Mirren's home to convince her that there's been a misunderstanding, but Mirren refuses to listen. Terrified that this will ruin her chances to go to college, Holmes and her compatriots knock Mirren out and tie her to her bed. Unfortunately, they haven't any idea what to do next; when Mirren awakes, the situation becomes a battle of wits in which the teenagers are hopelessly outmatched. Coughlin and Watson are pretty to look at and Holmes has some genuine talent and a lot of charm, but Mirren--who's played Shakespeare on the stage and been in movies ranging from lurid and trashy (Caligula) to eerie and arty (The Comfort of Strangers) to lurid, trashy, eerie, and arty (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover)--combines the cutting intelligence of Vanessa Redgrave, the steely will of Judi Dench, and a sensual energy that any young starlet would kill for. For fans of the British TV series Prime Suspect, in which Mirren plays the tough yet vulnerable Inspector Tennyson, this teen comedy-thriller is just an amusing footnote in Mirren's career; but if you've never been transfixed by this actress's mischievous sidelong glances, Teaching Mrs. Tingle might provide a good start. --Bret Fetzer
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 "FUN!" January 8, 2010
Terry Richard (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada)
The future Mrs. Tom Cruise (Katie Holmes) and future Oscar winner for "The Queen" (Hellen Mirren) star in this cute and well-acted teen comedy from writer genius Kevin Williamson who wrote the "Scream" franchise and TV's "Dawson's Creek. The film is about a bunch of small town teenagers who are gearing up for graduation. However, evil school teacher Mrs. Tingle, a hateful, spiteful, and arrogant woman is determined to keep certain students from receiving their diploma because she simply does not like them. It is up to these students to teach Mrs. Tingle a lesson on respect for your fellow human beings, and to bring her down off her high peg and snobbish manners. "Mrs. Tingle" is great fun and is mainly geared to a young audience, but all people, despite their age, will enjoy it. The script is well writtem and the performances intelligent and witty. Hellen Mirren steals the movie as the witchly teacher, even though she loses her beautiful British accent for the role. The film is short on bonuses, but the trailer is included. Westwood One says the film is "outrageously funny!".
Before She Was The Queen... August 2, 2009
Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein (under the rubble)
I love Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect). She is an actor that makes every role she plays appear effortless. She's also quite the beauty, still hot in her "older" years! Watching Ms. Mirren match wits w/ her teen abductors (including a nice turn by Katie Holmes) is a pure joy! She is smart, acidic, and downright eeevil! Her Mrs. Tingle is frightening, even when bound and gagged! You can feel her hate, while watching those wicked wheels turn in her head. TEACHING MRS. TINGLE is a surprisingly intelligent and suspenseful movie. It uses its humor sparingly, never making things ridiculous. Kevin Williamson (Scream 1 and 2) deserves a lot of credit here. He uses restraint, going with a more sinister tone, when things could really have taken a much sillier turn. The only complaint I have is the PG-13 rated version. It's obvious by the "EXORCIST re-enactment" scene that words were overdubbed to miss the R rating. It sort of wrecks an otherwise hilarious sequence. Then again, they had to change the original title (Killing Mrs. Tingle) to start with. Ugh!...
 very good at being bad June 18, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
Helen Mirren does her job very well here:
I found myself wishing she were dead several times.
Sometimes the people who should be looking out for you are are actually looking to do you in for their own little bitter reasons?
It is a good teen movie of a situation
that gets out of control.
 2 stars out of 4 December 28, 2008
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
A braindead movie that doesn't bother making its imbecilic plot even slightly plausible (how does Mrs. Tingle go to the bathroom?), Teaching Mrs. Tingle should be thanked for virtually ending the career of Kevin Williamson and never mentioned otherwise
 "You gave me a 'B'?!!!!" June 13, 2008
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
I really like the original title "Killing Mrs. Tingle" that would have put a little more pathos in the movie. It is quite an IRONY. This movie looks like a training ground for "9 to 5" (1980).
Helen Mirren is the perfect Mrs. Tingle; she has that look that can see through your sole and divulge your deepest fears. That same year she played Ayn Rand in Passion of Ayn Rand, The (1999). However most people remember her as Supt. Jane Tennison in "Prime Suspect."
Michael McKean made a perfect principal and you can tell he was sweating on his early encounter with Mrs. Tingle. Remember him in "Laverne & Shirley" (1976) TV Series as Lenny Kosnowski (1976-1982)?
Then there is the quick appearance of Molly Ringwald as Miss Banks. She brings back memories of "Sixteen Candles" (1984), when she was the teenager.
If this movie looks predictable or the people's thoughts are transparent, that is the design. Now the viewer can say don't do that or oh no will they really do that? And you can see eyes narrow as the mind is plotting!
The only real disappointment was the rather arrownious ending. It may work if this was a plot for a TV series.
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