Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.
Julianne Moore
as Linda Sinclair
Michael Angarano
as Jason Sherwood
Greg Kinnear
as Dr. Tom Sherwood
Lily Collins
as Halle Anderson
Fiona Shaw
as Narrator
Norbert Leo Butz
as Vice Principal Phil Pelaski
Jessica Hecht
as Principal Trudie Slocum
Charlie Saxton
as Will
Nathan Lane
as Carl Kapinas
Nikki Blonsky
as Sheila Nussbaum
Erin Wilhelmi
as Joni Gerber
Remy Auberjonois
as Beefy Businessman
