The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Reviews & Ratings

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie reviews

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie holds a 7.0/10 average from 132 TMDB ratings.

This film always reminds me of a teacher we had at primary school who thought the best way of obtaining discipline from us unruly eight year olds was to stamp her foot and look at her watch. All that actually achieved was for us to make more paper aeroplanes from the torn pages of our “Modern Comprehensive Artithmetic”. Had she adopted the more engaging and thought-provoking style of this titular Edinburgh lady, the…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.

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