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Our School's E.T. (2008)

Our School's E.T. poster
Original title
울학교 이티
Directed by
Park Gwang-chun
Genre
comedy film, teen film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
2h
Rated
15
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A PE teacher who acts like an alien to his students must quickly reinvent himself as an English teacher when his school pushes a new English-focused policy. He takes on the challenge with clumsy but determined efforts to keep his job.

lightheartedunderdogcomicalearnestwhimsicaloffbeatupbeatquirky

What happens

Our School's E.T. (Korean: 울학교 이티; RR: Ulhakgyo iti) is a 2008 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Park Kwang-chun (also known as K.C. Park). It stars Kim Soo-ro as an unconventional, "alien-like" high school P.E. teacher whose position is put at stake when the school adopts a new policy to boost English education, so he decides that becoming an English teacher (E.T.) overnight is his only hope. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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