Nearly a year on from its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, director Tony Kaye's ensemble drama Detachment is readying to make its debut on VOD and in theaters. This calls for a poster! Movieline's got your first look at the one-sheet -- featuring leading man Adrien Brody and a high school classroom in desperate need of a janitor -- after the break.
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In the new trailer for Detachment -- the latest entry in the teachers-are-big-ole-saints genre of filmmaking, Adrien Brody plays a teacher who has not spent all his life living in a gangsta’s paradise. That’s where the conflict is. He wants to help his group of troubled students, but he can barely get them to sit down, let alone listen up. The execution looks charming enough, and the movie fared well at Tribeca, so let’s indulge director (and showman) Tony Kaye’s vision and dig this new group of Freedom Writers.
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