Welcome To Movie Recall. In Today's video, we will be going through the 2011 Comedy,
Romance film : “Bad Teacher”. It's Time To Recall.
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The film starts with shots of children going to school and the time they spend in the classroom.
The film then moves to teachers having a celebration in the staff room. The teachers
recount the year that they had. They say farewell to one of the teachers called Elizabeth; they
tell her that they consider her part of the JAMS family, and then they ask her to give a speech.
Elizabeth says that she has been there for only a year and that she will miss her students the most.
We then see a shot of her walking in the hallway, but she turns away from the students; then, she
says that she wants to get to know the other staff members better, but once again, we see a shot of
her turning away from a birthday celebration. She then says that with four classes and planning a
wedding, her hands were full; she then says that she doesn't need a blackboard or a classroom
to set an example. Later we see her smoking marijuana as she carelessly pulls her car out
of the parking, almost crashing into the bus. Just as she drives off, she shouts Adios Bitches.
Basically, Elizabeth Halsey is an unethical English teacher at Cook County's John Adams Middle
School also known as JAMS. She speaks foully and greedy, consumes a lot of booze, smokes marijuana,
and watches movies while napping through class. She intends to leave teaching and marry her
wealthy fiancé, Mark. She returns home and tells her finance that they are going to have sex, but
she sees that her fiancé's mother is there. Mark tells her that she has spent $16,000 since they
have been together. Mark's mother then asks her whether she knows about Mark's birthday, Elizabeth
replies that she is insulted by the comment, but his mother tells her that it was today. Elizabeth
is surprised, but she tries to cover it up by giving Mark a present, but his mother tells her
that this has to end, and Mark tells her that the relationship is over. She tries to convince Mark
to marry her but fails, and the relationship ends. It turns out that Elizabeth really didn't love
Mark and was only with him for the money. The film then moves on by three weeks, and we
see that Elizabeth is back working at the school, and the luxurious car she had earlier is now gone.
When she comes into the school, she meets Amy, who tells her that she is sorry that her relationship
has ended. Elizabeth tells her that she had caught her fiancé with another man, and that was the
reason the relationship ended. Amy then tells her that she knows that Elizabeth had been busy
earlier, but this time around, she expects that Elizabeth is going to be a good teacher. Elizabeth
is sitting in a classroom when Lynn offers to take her to lunch, but Elizabeth tells her
that she is busy; Lynn tells her that it is her treat, and Elizabeth decides to go with her.
Over lunch, Elizabeth tells Lynn that the only thing she wants to do is to find a guy
that would take care of her, and the one thing she needs is a new pair of breasts. Lynn tells
her that she doesn't want to do this and that she is already beautiful. Elizabeth is then
seen in a bar as a rich man asks her to come to his boat, but she comments that he is married
and invites his younger associate to come over. The two start talking and then end
up making out. But the man tells her that he is a trainee and after his training is over,
he is going to become an occupational therapist as he wants to do something that matters, this
annoys Elizabeth, and she tells him that he is not good enough for her and she returns to the bar.
The next day, Amy is shown teaching a class as a bored class looks on. Elizabeth then comes
into class apparently hungover; she dims the light and throws down her bag. A student comes over and
tells her that her mother has made some cookies for her. She doesn't respond to the girl and tells
another student to pull up the TV. The student appreciates that she is showing them a movie on
the first day; Elizabeth then takes a bite of the cookie and spits it back out to the shock of the
girl that had brought them. She then comments that the cookies suck. Later, Elizabeth is shown in the
cafeteria as Russel, the gym teacher, asks her out for a date. She tells him that she does not date
coworkers and blows him off. Amy then comes over and comments that Elizabeth shouldn't have shown a
movie on the first date. The two have an awkward interaction as Elizabeth walks off. She goes
into the hall and sees an attractive man in the hallway. He introduced himself as Scott Delacorte.
He tells her that he is the new substitute. Elizabeth notices that he is wearing an expensive
watch and comments about it, to which Scott replies that his grandfather designed this watch
and that it was from his family business. This intrigues Elizabeth, who asks him about his wife,
and he tells her that he doesn't have a wife and has just gotten out of a relationship with someone
known as Catherine. He then shows her a picture of his girlfriend, who apparently has big breasts.
Elizabeth is later shown at a doctor's office, where he introduces her to someone who had
done breast surgery for. Elizabeth tells the doctor that she will go through the surgery.
At the clinic, the assistant tells her that she will have to pay $9300.
Elizabeth tells her that her financial situation is a bit tough and that she will need some time.
Later, she is seen calling her parents for the money; when her father doesn't give her any,
she goes and slashes the tire of his car. She also calls her ex for the money,
stating that he owes her as the entire situation is very humiliating for her. Her boyfriend then
cuts the call, and it is shown that Elizabeth is living with someone she met on craigslist.
When she cuts the call, her roommate comes out and tells her that he might be a little behind
on the month's rent. Then he brings a bottle for Elizabeth and tells her they should get wasted.
The next day, she shows another movie to the class where a girl tells her that they are
going to hold a carwash and that they raised $6000 the last time. This intrigues Elizabeth,
and she goes to the principal office. She starts flirting with him, but he seems more interested in
dolphins than her. She then asks her if she can supervise the 7th class car wash, the principal
tells her that Amy is supposed to do that, but she manages to convince the principal to allow
her to do that. At the car wash, she wears some provocative clothes and starts cleaning the car,
all the men there continue to stare at her, and a policeman even hits a parked car.
Then Scott comes up on the scene in his Audi, and she tries to ask him out on a date, but
he refuses. At the end of the car wash, Elizabeth sits in a car and counts the money. Amy sees this
and complains to the principal about Elizabeth and tells him that she might have taken money
from the car wash. The principal tells her to get out and that she should leave him in peace.
The next day, while she is teaching a class, Elizabeth is told that the students have to
go through a pretest. Elizabeth then tells the students that the tests are not worth it and
tells the students that she is supposed to give them 45 minutes and they should start working
on the test. Elizabeth seems to have something against Amy and calls her a phony while she helps
a student. Scott comes to the cafeteria, and he stops to talk with Elizabeth and Lynn.
Elizabeth sends Lynn away, but at the same moment, Amy comes and starts talking with Scott. She even
reveals that Elizabeth is about to get breast enlargement surgery, which angers Elizabeth.
Sometime later, a parent-teacher conference is held, and the parents tell Elizabeth that
they don't think much about her approach to teaching the children with movies.
Elizabeth tells them that the school has hired her because she is amazing at what she does
and that she uses movies as just one of her many multimedia aides. She then tells them to enjoy
the refreshments, which are just a glass of water and a pack of Oreos. She then dismisses the class,
but just as she is about to walk out of the class, one of the parents stops her
and tells her that he would appreciate it if she paid a little more attention to his child;
he then hands her some money. This gives an idea to Elizabeth, and she starts to
convince other parents to give her money so she can give private tutoring classes.
As the animosity between Amy and Elizabeth grows, things start to heat up. Amy gets
Scott a book called Eat Pray Love, and Scott tells her that it is his favorite book too.
The two share a moment, and then we see Elizabeth smoking marijuana in her car.
A student surprises her, and she tells her that it is prescribed by the doctor. The student tells
her that she has got some more cookies for her, and Elizabeth tells her to stop dressing like she
wants to run for Congress. Elizabeth then tells the student that she is high and drives off.
At the school ball, Russel tries to hit on Elizabeth once again, but Elizabeth rejects his
advances once more and then she goes over to dance with Scott. The two then go into the hallway,
and Scott, tells her that he is interested in Amy, but Elizabeth tells her that Amy is a lesbian.
This breaks Scott's heart. Elizabeth then goes back into the hall and tells Russel that they
should get high together. She also forces Lynn to get high with them. Russel and Elizabeth
then continue smoking in the gym room. Later, Elizabeth hears through her closest friend,
Lynn Davies, that the teacher of the class with the greatest state exam results would
get a bonus of $5,700. With this information, Elizabeth decides to adjust her teaching method,
requiring the class to read and study "To Kill A Mockingbird" in preparation for the impending
test. However, the adjustment is too little, too late. The kids' quiz results are poor,
which frustrates her even more. Meanwhile, Amy and Scott begin dating, and she befriends Russell,
the gym teacher. Elizabeth obtains the state test answers by impersonating a journalist and
courting Carl Halabi, a state official in charge of preparing and distributing the examinations.
Elizabeth gets Carl intoxicated and encourages him to have sex with her in his office, but she
drugs his drink and grabs a copy of the answers. Elizabeth's class aced the test a month later,
and she received the bonus, allowing her to get her breasts enlarged.
When Elizabeth hears that Amy and Scott will be chaperoning a field trip, she spreads poison ivy
on an apple and leaves it for Amy, who ends up with blisters on her face and is unable to go.
Elizabeth seduces Scott while on vacation. They dry hump, and Elizabeth surreptitiously contacts
Amy on Scott's phone, leaving a voicemail that records everything, guaranteeing that she is
aware of the affair. Elizabeth, on the other hand, finds Scott disappointing. Garrett is humiliated
and mocked by his classmates on a field trip after loudly declaring his unrequited love for
a classmate called Chase. After that, Elizabeth soothes him by telling him how she is too
superficial to return his attention, which makes Elizabeth think about her own superficial ways.
She assists Garrett by handing him her bra and tells everyone that she caught him with a girl
from another school giving him a handjob to stop the other kids from making fun of him.
Amy leaves the school and replaces Elizabeth's desk with her own in order to fool the janitor
into opening Elizabeth's locked drawer. Amy discovers Elizabeth's journalist disguise
as well as the practice test, leading her to believe she cheated on the state exam.
Amy notifies the principal and convinces Carl to testify against her. Elizabeth,
on the other hand, snapped unflattering images of Carl while he was unconscious and used them
to blackmail him into saying she was innocent with the assistance of her roommate, Kirk.
Amy accuses Elizabeth of drug usage after failing to reveal her cheating on the basis
of a tip from a student. When the cops come and search the school with their sniffer dog,
they discover Elizabeth's small liquor bottles, marijuana, and OxyContin pills in Amy's classroom,
hidden in a concealed compartment in Amy's desk, which Elizabeth graciously points out to the cops.
Amy is transferred to another school in the county by the superintendent at the end of the school
year. Scott wants to start again with Elizabeth, but she rejects him in favor of Russell, with whom
she has discovered she has a lot of interests. When the new school year begins,
Elizabeth has decided against getting the breast enhancement since she believes she
looks good as is. She also has a new job as a guidance counselor at the school.
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