Elizabeth is a teacher; she drinks, she gets high, she hates her pupils and she can’t wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When a rich, handsome substitute teacher appears on the scene Liz sees her chance, but competing for his affections is an overly energetic and anal colleague, Amy. A pretty generic ‘I see the error of my ways’ romantic comedy but Diaz in particular makes the whole thing a lot of fun....who’d a guessed.
find out more...15-year-old Oliver Tate has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to extinguish the flame between his mother and an ex-lover who has resurfaced in her life. 'Submarine' is a melancholic comedy, and would slip easily into a boxset with 'Rushmore', 'Scott Pilgrim' and 'Harold and Maude'. Richard Ayoade's debut is extremely well-crafted, less cynical and more mature than you might expect from an alumnus of dark British comedy.
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