The Kindergarten Teacher

Drama.

Winner of Best Director at the Sundance Film Festival. Maggie Gyllenhaal (An Honourable Woman, The Dark Knight, Donnie Darko) plays a forty-year old married kindergarten teacher living in New York who is terminally bored with her banal middle-class existence.
Deep in the thrall of her midlife crisis, she becomes convinced that her five-year-old student is a budding poetic genius, and a way for her to express her own frustration at her humdrum existence. She decides to secretly nurture the boy's talents in a reckless manner. But is she doing this for the boy or for herself? A real gem.