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Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in first trailer for The Kindergarten Teacher

August 9, 2018 by Amie Cranswick

Netflix has released the first poster and trailer for The Kindergarten Teacher, the upcoming thriller from writer-director Sara Colangelo’s which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal as a teacher who tries to nuture her five year-old student’s talent in a desperate attempt to follow her own dreams, alongside newcomer Parker Sevak, Anna Baryshnikov,, Rosa Salazar,, Michael Chernus, and Gael García Bernal; take a look here…

“Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a kindergarten teacher in Staten Island who yearns to live a life of art and intellectualism. She takes an evening poetry class but, despite her best efforts, her work is mediocre. When she overhears Jimmy (Parker Sevak), one of her five-year-old students, reciting an original poem in her classroom, she is floored. Convinced he is the equivalent of a young Mozart, she becomes obsessed with the child and embarks on a dangerous journey to nurture his talent. As Lisa continues down this increasingly desperate path, she seems ready to throw away everything to chase an impossible dream.”

The Kindergarten Teacher is set to arrive on Netflix on October 12th.

Filed Under: Amie Cranswick, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Anna Baryshnikov, Gael García Bernal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Chernus, Parker Sevak, Rosa Salazar, Sara Colangelo, The Kindergarten Teacher

About Amie Cranswick

Amie Cranswick is Executive Editor of Flickering Myth, responsible for overseeing editorial coverage across film, television and pop culture.

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