During a weekend trip to a drama competition with three students, a high-school English teacher discovers that coming of age stories are not just for teenagers and the messiness of youth never really goes away.
13 September 1996, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
29 June 1982, New York, New York, USA
18 November 1958, Cuba
18 August 1974, San Francisco, California, USA
19 June 1983, Wayne, New Jersey, USA
16 November 1995, Newry, Maine, USA
4 June 1969, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
September 20, 2016
Miss Stevens is a moving comedy-drama that works in concert with the habitual expectations of the audience to weave a tale that's run-through with absolute truth.
September 15, 2016
Ms. Rabe's beautifully balanced performance reminds you that people never really grow up.
September 15, 2016
It acknowledges that the best versions of ourselves are often written-sometimes by the hand of other people-when we're not looking, when a third-act plot twist jerks the wheel left.
September 22, 2016
Hart manages to capture those uniquely intimate and complicated friendships that crop up between teachers and students... Rabe does a masterful job of conveying Miss Stevens' fragility.
September 15, 2016
Acknowledges that the boundary between instructor and charge is a necessary but complicated one, especially when messy, needy, well-meaning human beings are on both sides of that line.
September 11, 2016
The film is more progressive than Anomalia, Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's downtrodden apologia for male chauvinism.
March 15, 2016
Rabe's face and body language are fascinating to watch grappling with a problem. There's always something roiling beneath the surface.
September 16, 2016
[A] very indie indie which tries hard to be simultaneously winsome and rueful.
September 18, 2016
A radiant Lily Rabe is a stand out in this diverting movie fare...
September 16, 2016
A low-key and intelligent character study.
September 29, 2016
Hart imbues the film with both a natural visual harmony, as well as the simplicity of a lasting message: There are no easy answers when dealing with the complexities of other human beings.
