The Class of Miss MacMichael

The Class of Miss MacMichael is a 1978 British comedy drama film directed by Silvio Narizzano and starring Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed and Michael Murphy. It was based on a novel by Sandy Hutson. The film depicts the attempts of an idealistic teacher, Miss MacMichael, to inspire her pupils in an innercity London school.

Reviews of the film were mostly negative, dismissing the film as routine and predictable, and criticizing Oliver Reeds role and performance.Janet Maslin in the New York Times wrote, Brut productions, which once brought you Glenda Jackson in A Touch of Class, this time presents her in circumstances that are decidedly dclass...Miss Jackson does nothing here that she hasnt done better elsewhere. Variety criticized the film as Treading the usual characterizations and situations, but added, Though predictable, and the script serviceable for this oftreated theme, with direction average, it has Glenda Jackson adding her presence to the part of a dedicated teacher who eschews a second marriage to stay with her impossible charges. Time Out denounced the film, writing Reed, as the neofascist headmaster of a school for delinquents, parodies his boorish film persona to the point of farce, alternately strutting around like a boiled turkey or oiling his way with the schools visitors, while Jackson goes at her role of committed teacherlone befriender of kids with jawforward heartiness. Add to this conflict in styles the films confused intentions black comedy, the horrific realities of reform schools, a sentimental belief that understanding will overcome and you have a mess. ........

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