Fortysomething high school teacher Edwin is a cringy control freak and a total pushover. His wife left him, his daughter Bobbie doesn’t want to be seen with him and at work he is bullied by both his colleagues and students. When one day headmaster Glenda shatters Edwin’s dream to become vice principal, deeming him unqualified due to his ‘stunning lack of authority', Edwin realizes things need to change. Foul-mouthed gym teacher and alpha-man-child Peter is more than willing to offer some help, but has a way of making things worse beyond imagination.
Acting
Rutger de Bekker's physical comedy of pure, weaponized patheticness.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes Dutch directness into comedy gold.
Direction
Two directors somehow harmonize on maximum awkward tension.
Director
Merijn Scholte-Albers
Rutger de Bekker
Edwin
Ruben van der Meer
Peter
Sezgin Güleç
Melchior
Kylian de Pagter-Colin
Bastiaan
Raymonde de Kuyper
Glenda
Noëlle Simson
Bobbie
Estefanio Pinas
Kevin
Yannick van de Velde
Yani
Daniël Kolf
Darius
Yari van der Linden
Koos
Steef Cuijpers
Bram
Lisa Zweerman
Chilonka
Alex Ploeg
Daniël
Janice Blok
Evelien
Bobbie Mulder
Chloe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dutch school culture is notoriously informal; the film satirizes how that informality becomes weaponized hierarchies.
Ruben van der Meer (Peter) is a famous Dutch comedian; casting him as the 'alpha' deliberately subverts his usual everyman persona.
NL
