Happiness Is Loving Your Teacher (1977)
- Directed by
- John N. Smith
- Genre
- fiction film
- Country
- Canada
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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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