The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
1969 · 116 min
Directed by Ronald Neame. Written by Jay Presson Allen, Muriel Spark. Starring Maggie Smith, Robert Stephens, Pamela Franklin, Celia Johnson.
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Critics 81% · audiences 84% · 1 Oscar nomination, 1 won