Detachment
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A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2011-04-24
Runtime: 98 mins
Director: Tony Kaye
Writer: Carl Lund
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama
Original title: Detachment
Production Companies: Paper Street Films, Kingsgate Films, Appian Way
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Adrien Brody
Marcia Gay Harden
James Caan
Christina Hendricks
Lucy Liu
Blythe Danner
Tim Blake Nelson
William Petersen
Bryan Cranston
Sami Gayle
Betty Kaye
Louis Zorich
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
Chris Papavasiliou
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