Detachment (film)
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| Directed by | Tony Kaye |
| Produced by | Greg Shapiro Carl Lund Bingo Gubelmann Austin Stark Benji Kohn Chris Papavasiliou |
| Written by | Carl Lund |
| Starring |
Adrien Brody Marcia Gay Harden Christina Hendricks William Petersen Bryan Cranston Tim Blake Nelson Betty Kaye Sami Gayle Lucy Liu Blythe Danner James Caan |
| Music by | The Newton Brothers |
| Cinematography | Tony Kaye |
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Barry Alexander Brown Geoffrey Richman |
| Distributed by | Tribeca Film |
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100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,481,646 |
Detachment is a 2011 American drama film about the high school education system directed by Tony Kaye, starring Adrien Brody with an ensemble supporting cast.
Detachment is a chronicle of one month in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody). Barthes' method of imparting vital knowledge to his temporary students is interrupted by the arrival of three women in his life — the damaged and naive prostitute Erica (Sami Gayle), a fellow teacher (Christina Hendricks) and a troubled teen named Meredith (Betty Kaye). These women all have profound effects on Barthes' life, forcing him to both re-discover aspects of his own personality, and to come to terms with both the tragic suicide of his mother and the impending death of his grandfather. The film is punctuated with flashbacks of scenes of Barthes' young childhood and his mother's suicide.
Sub-plots include the struggles of Dr. Parker (Lucy Liu) within her role as the school counselor and the painful torment of Principal Dearden (Marcia Gay Harden), who faces her dismissal as head of this deeply flawed school.
Filming took place in Mineola Middle School and Mineola High School on Long Island, New York.
In March 2012, cast member Bryan Cranston was asked about Detachment during an interview. He told Cranston he loved the movie and then started to ask his question. "Wait," Cranston said, "did you like 'Detachment'?" The reporter said again that he loved it, and Cranston seemed surprised. "I haven't seen it," he told the assembled press. "I'm surprised to hear that actually." When asked to clarify, he continued, "Because I felt that Carl Lund, the writer of 'Detachment,' wrote a really beautiful, haunting script. And I didn't feel that it was honored." Shocked by Cranston's frankness, the reporters pushed him for more on that disagreement. "I was upset with that. I really was. And so I didn't see the movie." He sighed, resigned, and continued, after searching for the right way to phrase himself, "Tony Kaye is a very complicated… interesting fellow." He smiled as he chose his words carefully. "I don't believe that I'll be working with him again. I didn't not get along with him on a personal level. But I just honor the writing. I really think that writing is the most important element there is. It is the springboard. It is where everything starts. And if you don't honor that -- which I didn't feel it was -- then where are you?" He leaned in as if telling everyone a secret. "And I'm not the only actor on that film to feel that way."
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