Detachment

Author

Tony Kaye

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN, WSQ)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Adrien Brody, Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Betty Kaye, Sami Gayle, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Publication Information

[New York] : Distributed by New Video, [2012]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Henry Barthes is a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration, inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is. Henry finds that he's not alone in a life-and-death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2011.

Bonus features: interview with director Tony Kaye and actor Adrien Brody ; interviews from the 2012 red carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere.