Notes on a scandal
Record details
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Physical Description:
videorecording
videodisc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : | dvd 4 3/4 in. - Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Based on the book by Zoe Heller. Originally released as motion picture in 2006. Special features: commentary by director; "Notes on a scandal: the story of two obsessions" featurette; behind the scenes featurette; "A conservation with Cate Blanchett and Bill Nighy" featurette; "In character with Cate Blanchett" featurette; webisodes. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy. |
Target Audience Note: | MPAA rating: R; for language and some aberrant sexual content. |
System Details Note: | DVD; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation. |
Language Note: | Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (5.1 Dolby Surround), French (Dolby Surround) or Spanish (Dolby Surround) with optional subtitles in English or Spanish. |
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Subject: | DVD-Video discs |
Genre: | Feature films. Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Thrillers (Motion pictures) Videodiscs. |
Topic Heading: | DVD-videodiscs |
Available copies
- 6 of 10 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Creston Public Library | DVD FIC NOT (Text) | 35140000751308 | Fiction Videos | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Barbara is a cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. Her only means of taking the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. Sheba is a younger, attractive woman, who joins the faculty as an art teacher. Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary. Barbara finds herself reaching out to Sheba. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba's lecturer husband and their two children. Later, when Barbara discovers that Sheba is having a sexual relationship with a 15-year old student, Barbara realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Sheba becomes uneasy with Barbara's friendship. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara's cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. Sheba chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.