Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Awesome Movie

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

If you want a guilty pleasure, this movie is it! It's natural for a student to have a crush on a teacher, especially the one you had on your senior year in high school. There is one teacher, Diane Marshall (Angel Tompkins) who was not only a teacher, she is the neighbor of her now former student, Sean Roberts (Jay North). Sean, is a quiet and reserved young man, who hangs out with his friend, Lou (Rudy Herrera, Jr.). They go out to the harbor where the teacher take her boat out. But she's also being watched by Lou's brother, Ralph (Anthony James), a former military man who has an unhealthy obsession with the teacher. During the day, Ralph catches them spying on the teacher, and Lou is accidentally killed. In the meantime, Diane began to set her sights on Sean. She was married to a drifter, and was never around her. So she became bored, and love-starved. Sean was very shy, but later on, Diane began to open him up more. In a nice afternoon scene, she has her shower after a day in the pool. Sean gets a lesson in love he'll never forget. Even though reluctant, he gave in to her, without a fight. But they have to be cautious, Lou's crazy brother stalks the couple, and Sean manages to send him back. A very intense movie here. It's great for all the cult followers out there. Recommendable! 4 out of 5 stars

I saw this at a drive-in in high school and it really taught me a lesson in the lower depths of blah banality. This is one of those movies that's like a porn film with the sex taken out. James had quite a career, but it's amazing he lowered himself to do this movie. Not that he was a star. I guess he just liked working. What else can I say? Angel Thompkins got to be in a couple of studio films. She started in soaps, apparently. Yawn. Jay North. Well, let's face it, "Dennis The Menace" wasn't exactly a great sit com in the first place. She mostly did garbage TV. Anyway, it would have been a better world if "The Teacher" had never been made, but I guess it doesn't make much difference in the long run.

For thirty-three years I'd been jonesing to see THE TEACHER, grindhouse auteur Hikmet Avedis' homage to THE GRADUATE, which somehow eluded me during its original Times Square run. Blessed is the patient schlock film fan, for his forbearance shall be rewarded. Thanks to the miracle of DVD and the munificence of BCI Eclipse, I finally caught up with this much-touted jewel in the Crown International catalog, and am pleased to report that it was all that and a bag of Swavorski rhinestones. Like its contemporary, THE GODFATHER: PART II, THE TEACHER is daring in its narrative structure. Unlike the Coppola film it's also ludicrous in the extreme, but then you can't have everything. Part leering soft-core romp, part tender coming-of-age drama, part stalk-and-chill suspenser, the movie's mismatched ingredients come together to form a blissfully surreal, silly whole.The cast list alone makes it deserving of enshrinement in the Psychotronic Hall of Fame.First and foremost, there's top-billed and bottom-perfect Angel Tompkins as a middle schooler's fantasy come to life, the hubba hubba homeroom teacher who just happens to be freshly divorced, hot to trot, and living right down the block. Charming and sensitive, Tompkins gives a performance that goes above and beyond the call of booty. She invests the role with such persuasive passion that one can almost believe her attraction to a most unlikely lust object: Jay North, the actor formerly known as Dennis the Menace, age twenty-two, sporting a double chin, a perpetual smirk, a Little Lord Fauntleroy page boy, and no discernible acting talent. To his credit, North is in the moment and then some during several graphic clinches with Angel. Mr. Wilson would have been aghast. Or green with envy. I was both.The call sheet also includes such bizarro world superstars as Med Flory (Worshefski, the bullying football player, in THE NUTTY PROFESSOR) as North's bullying father, Barry "Janos Skorzeny" Atwater as a snoopy sheriff, BURNT OFFERING's Anthony James as a psycho stalker, and in WTF-writ large cameos, Katherine "Mother of John" Cassevetes and Lady "Mother of Gena" Rowlands as a pair of chattering restaurant patrons.

According to the posters for "The Teacher":"She corrupted the youthful morality of an entire school!!" Nothing could have been further from the truth. She only got involved with one 18-year-old graduate of the school. Noted film critic Leonard Maltin calls "The Teacher" trashy but enjoyable. Maybe to some it is trashy or sleazy, as some other reviewers have commented. But not to me. It amazes me that the "American Pie" series was released by Univeral Studios, thus also having huge budgets, have made millions and millions and spawned some truly dreadful sequels. In my opinion, yes they are funny and realistic, but they are far trashier and sleazier than "The Teacher". I personally don't find "The Teacher" to be trashy or sleazy at all. Angel Tompkins is stunning, sexy and fully believable in the title role of Diane. Jay North, as her student and neighbor Sean, while not ever a great actor, is also believable, earnest and sincere. He is also very likable. Anthony James plays the disturbed Vietnam veteran Ralph very well, although I found the subplot of his obsession with and stalking of Diane to be out-of-place and not needed in this film. I have to say that it is the only real flaw in the film, along with the ending. If you have never seen the film, it will stun you. I have seen the film many times, originally at a drive-in, on VHS and now on DVD. I fully intend to watch it many more times. Some have commented on Diane having a Corvette, a swimming pool and a boat. Well maybe she had a wealthy family? Teachers are not known for being well-payed. Her husband Russ was briefly seen and heard near the end of the film phoning her. All we are really told about him is that he races his motorcycle all over the place and is a drifter. He apparently just took off and left Diane to do this. Yet one reviewer commented that Russ had been completely faithful to Diane while he was away. Where did this come from?? One thing that others have also noticed is that Sean's mother Alice, played by German born, 1961 Miss Universe, Marlene Schmidt seemed to have a thing for her son. I didn't really feel this, but she certainly did seem to be trying to play matchmaker between Diane and Sean, despite Diane being married!! I love this film and it is one of my all time favorites. To each their own.