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Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Summary: Katherine Watson teaches art history in 1953 at the respectable all-female Wellesley College. She encourages her conservative students to question and disregard the outdated societal mores for women.

Release Date: December 19, 2003

Genre: Drama

Director: Mike Newell

Writers: Lawrence Konner

, Mark Rosenthal

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Revolution Studios, Red Om Films

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Columbia TriStar Home Video, HBO Max, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 63,860,942

International: $ 77,477,047

20 - Metacritic % Gap

Hellcats (2010)

Summary: The wild world of competitive college cheerleading.

Release Date: September 08, 2010

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Bonanza Productions, Tom Welling Productions, Warner Bros. Television

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

16 - Metacritic % Gap

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Summary: Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Release Date: January 09, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Gus Van Sant

Writers: Matt Damon

, Ben Affleck

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership, Lawrence Bender Productions

Distributor: Miramax, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), HBO Max, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 138,433,435

International: $ 87,500,000

14 - Metacritic % Gap

Freedom Writers (2007)

Summary: Erin Gruwell, a young teacher in a racially divided Los Angeles school, inspires her class of at-risk students, deemed incapable of learning, to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Release Date: January 05, 2007

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Richard LaGravenese

Writers: Richard LaGravenese

, Freedom Writers

, Erin Gruwell

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Double Feature Films, MTV Films, Jersey Films, Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft & Company

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 21,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,605,602

International: $ 6,489,573

8 - Metacritic % Gap

Blackboard Jungle (1955)

Summary: A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty.

Release Date: March 25, 1955

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Richard Brooks

Writers: Richard Brooks

, Evan Hunter

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,168,000

7 - Metacritic % Gap

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Summary: Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.

Release Date: November 26, 2014

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: James Marsh

Writers: Anthony McCarten

, Jane Hawking

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Working Title Films, Dentsu Motion Pictures, Fuji Television Network

Distributor: Focus Features

Countries: United Kingdom, Japan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 35,893,537

International: $ 87,833,151

7 - Metacritic % Gap

The Paper Chase (1973)

Summary: A first-year law student at Harvard Law School struggles with balancing his coursework and a woman, unaware that she has a connection that affects their relationship.

Release Date: October 16, 1973

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: James Bridges

Writers: John Jay Osborn Jr.

, James Bridges

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Thompson-Paul Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,851,898

6 - Metacritic % Gap

The Great Debaters (2007)

Summary: A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.

Release Date: December 25, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Denzel Washington

Writers: Robert Eisele

, Jeffrey Porro

, Tony Scherman

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Harpo Films, Marshall Production, Roth Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,236,407

International: $ 35,149

5 - Metacritic % Gap

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Summary: Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.

Release Date: June 09, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Peter Weir

Writer: Tom Schulman

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV, A Steven Haft Production

Distributor: Touchstone Home Video, CBS, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,400,000

Domestic: $ 95,860,116

International: $ 140,000,000

3 - Metacritic % Gap

School Ties (1992)

Summary: In 1959, a star quarterback from a working-class family is given an opportunity to attend an elite New England preparatory school, but he is conflicted about whether or not to tell his Evangelical classmates that he is Jewish.

Release Date: September 18, 1992

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Mandel

Writers: Dick Wolf

, Darryl Ponicsan

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,715,067

1 - Metacritic % Gap

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

Summary: A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

Release Date: June 01, 2024

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: John Krokidas

Writers: Austin Bunn

, John Krokidas

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Killer Films, Benaroya Pictures, Outpost Studios, Bow Street Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,030,064

International: $ 847,860

0 - Metacritic % Gap

Emergency (2022)

Summary: Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation.

Release Date: May 27, 2022

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Director: Carey Williams

Writer: K.D. Dávila

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Amazon Studios, Temple Hill Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

-3 - Metacritic % Gap

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Summary: The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.

Release Date: March 18, 1988

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Ramón Menéndez

Writers: Ramón Menéndez

, Tom Musca

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: American Playhouse, Olmos Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Disney Channel, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 13,994,920

-5 - Metacritic % Gap

Indignation (2016)

Summary: In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

Release Date: November 03, 2016

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: James Schamus

Writers: Philip Roth

, James Schamus

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bing Feng Bao Entertainment, FilmNation Entertainment, Likely Story, RT Features, Roadside Attractions, Summit Entertainment, Symbolic Exchange, X-Filme Creative Pool

Distributor: Lionsgate, Summit Entertainment

Countries: United States, China, Brazil, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,401,155

International: $ 523,372

-6 - Metacritic % Gap

Children of a Lesser God (1986)

Summary: A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.

Release Date: October 31, 1986

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Randa Haines

Writers: Mark Medoff

, Hesper Anderson

, James Carrington

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Trifecta Entertainment and Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,500,000

Domestic: $ 31,853,080

-7 - Metacritic % Gap

Half Nelson (2006)

Summary: An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.

Release Date: August 25, 2006

Genre: Drama

Director: Ryan Fleck

Writers: Ryan Fleck

, Anna Boden

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hunting Lane Films, Journeyman Pictures, Silverwood Films, Truly Original, Traction Media, Verisimilitude

Distributor: THINKFilm

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 700,000

Domestic: $ 2,697,938

International: $ 1,962,543

-8 - Metacritic % Gap

The History Boys (2006)

Summary: An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

Release Date: October 13, 2006

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Writer: Alan Bennett

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, DNA Films, BBC Two Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,706,659

International: $ 10,700,442

-9 - Metacritic % Gap

An Education (2009)

Summary: A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.

Release Date: February 05, 2010

Genre: Drama

Director: Lone Scherfig

Writers: Lynn Barber

, Nick Hornby

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: BBC Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Wildgaze Films, Endgame Entertainment, An Education Distribution, Odyssey Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, HBO Max, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000

Domestic: $ 12,574,914

International: $ 13,521,938

-13 - Metacritic % Gap

The Class (2008)

Summary: Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

Release Date: March 13, 2009

Genre: Drama

Director: Laurent Cantet