Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999)

  • 19% of critics liked it
    (69 reviews)

  • 34% of users liked it
    (44,272 ratings)

After the success of Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and television's Dawson's Creek, screenwriter Kevin Williamson made his directorial debut with this screwball thriller in which an honor roll student and two friends kidnap their witchy teacher. Although her single mom (Lesley Ann… More

PG-13, 1 hr. 36 min.
Directed By
Kevin Williamson
Written By
Kevin Williamson
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Comedy
In Theaters
Aug 20, 1999 Wide
On DVD
Dec 21, 1999

Critic Reviews

  • Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

    Depressing!

  • Susan Stark, Detroit News

    As a routinely cruel, often vicious, miserably unhappy teacher, Mirren offers a complex, brilliantly disciplined performance!

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    There is nothing funny about the situation in Teaching Mrs. Tingle.

  • Ernest Hardy, Film.com

    Teaching Mrs. Tingle is funny, smart and full of unpredictable twists and turns.

  • Jay Carr, Boston Globe

    A screenful of nothingness!

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jason O


    Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren) is a teacher who is hated by almost everyone, including students and even most of the other faculty members. Mrs. Tingle seems to have a dislike for everyone, even if they're super smart, such as Leigh Ann (Katie Holmes). Leigh Ann must be the… More

  • Film C


    this was an alright movie, helen mirren is playing the teacher who is basically a bitch and is trying to ruin thiis student whose working hard for scholarship played by katie holmes and even though it has some comiic value they are short and fair between so its an watchable movie!

  • Luke B


    Teaching Mrs. Tingle is never really funny enough, thrilling enough or even consistent to be considered a great success. It is however a damn entertaining ride. Like a less serious version of Swimming with Sharks. It's the little guy getting their own back on a corrupt system.… More

  • Dean M


    This film panders shamelessly to the whining of spoiled mall rats (parents are clueless, teacher are evil, teenagers are pure, decent, and loyal). Helen Mirren easily outacts her callow costars, literally with her hands tied.

  • Lafe F


    Kids capture their hated schoolteacher Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren). There's some good interaction once Mrs. Tingle is tied to a bed and they can reason with her; she isn't such a monster after all - or is she only pretending? The movie mostly takes place in one house. There… More

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