The Perfect Teacher (2010) Reviews

• Not bad, but a little bit too ridiculous

  dashielle89-425-1321812012-11-05

  So the premise of the movie, although unoriginal, was entertaining enough. An unstable girl in high school becomes obsessed with her hot new math teacher/volley ball coach and will do anything to try to get him. I didn't bored while watching it and the acting wasn't bad for a TV movie, I have seen much worse. However I think this movie's main weakness is it's unbelievability. The teacher is made out to be an innocent victim of this girl's obsession, while in reality he was encouraging the behavior and probably breaking many school policies and maybe laws. Most schools, regardless of the state's laws, do not let teachers socialize with students individually outside of school, but this man found it acceptable for her to pick up his daughter and the three of them go out together, come to his house, go to his ex-wife's funeral, etc. He would have coffee with her, flirt with her, talk about personal relationships, and allow her to call his cell phone on a regular basis, but when she starts to outright say she want them to be together, he seems appalled and thinks she is the one who is totally out of line. He should have been reported (or reported her) in the beginning, or if not had his teaching license revoked and been terminated. I just seems most of the characters were completely incapable of making rational or realistic decisions. But even though most people have seen this story before and it does have some issues, I would say it's still worth watching once.

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• Decent movie, but hasn't the kind of story been seen before??

  Jurry302011-09-18

  I just watched this film on Lifetime & I could already predict everything about it. The basic synopsis is a teenage girl falls for her teacher from school & after a while becomes obsessed with him & goes to enormous measures to make him hers. Megan Park does a pretty good job at playing the alluring villain, but like I said, it's been done before. This film was so much like The Crush (the film with Alicia Silverstone from 1993) that it lacked very little surprises or suspense & very well could have been called The Crush 2. But, as I said before, this film, even though predictable, is still rather enjoyable with some pretty good acting & is a good way to waste a couple hours in front of the TV, just don't expect very many surprises in this Made for TV thriller.

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• Perfect Teacher Adds Up to Trig or Tricks ***1/2

  edwagreen2011-04-04

  The old problem of the young teacher and the student having a crush on him is again depicted by this 2010 film. Of course, our student has more than a crush on the teacher. It's an infatuation coupled with an imagination beyond belief. You know that such thoughts will invariably lead to mayhem and that's exactly what happens. Megan Park gives a compelling performance as the student whose mind plays tricks on her with her infatuation for the new trigonometry teacher who also doubles as a girls' sports coach. The teacher doesn't see through this because he has gone through a divorce and has built a relationship with another teacher that is threatening to come apart. David Chalvet's voice reminded me of the late Johnny Ray. He really lacked the maturity for the part and he appeared so vulnerable to Park's mesmerizing thoughts. The film again shows that you're the teacher and not the friend to a student. Boundaries must be established right away between younger teachers and high school students. You can only go so far and then you had better venture backwards. The ending points to the facts that these disturbed students are really living in a forever fantasy world. It just moves on to the next victim.

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• Her secret love's no secret any more

  sol12182011-09-09

  ***SPOILERS*** As soon as 17 year Devon Burkes, Megan Park, laid her eyes on the handsome as well as married new mathematics teacher Jim Wilkes, David Charvet, at Van Westerly High School she planned to make him her secret love. Leaving no stone unturned to get Wilkes to have an affair with her the very obsessed with lust for Wilkes Devon even lost her grip of reality in not being able to distinguish her fantasies from the real world in getting Wilks to accept her as his secret love. Even though that secret, on Devon's part, was no secret at all in how Devon was always bragging to her friends what a wild and crazy love affair she and Wilkes were supposedly having. Wilkes for his part did his best to get the love addicted Devon to realize that he wasn't interested in her sexually in that he's marries and, with his marriage now on the rocks, has a girlfriend Rachel,Boti Bliss, on the side. There's also Wilkes' 7 years old daughter, the apple of his eye, Annique, Keeua Lynk, who his estranged wife Mrissa, Judih Baribeau,is planning to take with her to San Diego, some 3,000 miles away.Mrissa also has Wilkes willing to come along with her to patch things up in their marriage. Devon almost driven insane in her attempt to hold on to Wilkes gets to get on to Wilkes', who's the coach, high school volley ball team as his assistant. This leads to Devon having access to Wilkes as well as his wife's personal papers as well as credit cards.Devon uses Wilkes credit card to buy herself sexy and skimpy clothes in order to frame him, in making it look like he bought them for her, in something she's got cooked up for him in the very near future. The final shoe to fall is when Devon knowing that Mrissa is a jogging freak she goes to Plan I by ambushing her with her SUV while Mrissa is out jogging killing her in a hit and run non accident. It takes a a while for Wilkes to realize what his "secret love" Devon Burkes is really up to which has her go to Plan II in setting up the by now shattered teacher in a fake statuary rape rap with her, not the totally innocent Jim Wilkes, as the victim! ***SPOILERS*** With Wilkes finally getting enough evidence to prove that Devon is in fact a murderous nut case she goes to Plan III in her deranged efforts to get Wilkes to give into her demands by kidnapping his daughter Annique and holding her hostage until Wilkes says yes to her proposal to be her lover! Going along with Devon's insane plan in order to get little Annique back Wilkes,finally turning the tables on her, sets Devon up by getting her to confess to her crimes on his cell phone with the police listening in. In the end with both Wilkes and Annique back again and him being taken of the nation wide sexual predator list Davon is still at it in now trying to get the court appointed psychiatrist Dr. Erickson,Nick Baillie, to have an affair with her! In him being a certified psychiatrist and knowing Devon's background Dr. Erickson is smart enough to fall for Devon's act.

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• Bad all the way through

  geoffox-766-4184672011-02-09

  Let me start off by saying the script was so uneven and impractical that I had a hard time believing any of it. That a teacher (coach) with training could not see through the psycho's motivations is beyond me. She was that obvious. That a student be allowed to wear the clothes she almost wore (they were that awful, revealing and lewd). That the police were not on top of the hit and run car that killed the ex wife. That they did not check the bimbo out who claimed she was raped at a hospital for evidence and DNA. Isn't that the first thing done before they take the word of a teeny bop-per? I could go on with all the inadequacies in this story. But adding to that is the horrible performance of Megan Park, the so called teenager. (She looked in her late 20s) Wearing clothes that did nothing but point out her physical shortcomings. Flat chested and hips that were wider than her shoulders. Wearing black showed this up to the hilt. Even a padded bra and corset still made her flat chested. Lip gloss, too much eye makeup and long clumpy legs in shoes that did not flatter her. Her acting was just as bad. Phony and not very interesting. David Charvet had more to do and did it well. He is a good actor and a shame he's doing this dreadful film. He did the best he could. And you could see he was uncomfortable with the bimbo. Boti Bliss did what she could as well in a small unrewarding role. Amanda Tlson had more screen time and did her best and looked like a teenager. Christine Conradt wrote this drivel and Jim Donovan spent too much time filming the leading lady. She was in almost every scene and this is what killed the movie in this viewer's eyes.

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