The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

In the surprising world of Jean Brodie, there were two men and four girls.

1969116 min6.9 / 10

A nuanced portrait of a charismatic but morally compromised teacher whose romantic idealism and fascist sympathies profoundly shape her vulnerable students in 1930s Scotland.

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.

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