Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher (1977)
- Directed by
- John N. Smith
- Genre
- fiction film
- Country
- Canada
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A substitute teacher in a wheelchair tries to control a difficult high school class. One student gets detention and starts to feel sorry for how she acted toward him.
classroom dramasomberrestrainedreflectivetensepoignantintimateslow-burn
What happens
Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher is a Canadian short drama film directed by John N. Smith and released in 1977. The film stars Martin Kevan as Mr. Todrick, a wheelchair-using substitute teacher facing an unruly high school class, and Marina Dimakopoulos as Tony, a student and class leader who comes to regret how she treated Mr. Todrick after she is given detention. Dimakopoulos won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress in a Non-Feature at the 28th Canadian Film Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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K&J (1977)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.