Notes on a Scandal

In the bravest and riskiest role of her brilliant screen career, Academy Award?-winner Dame Judi Dench sends chills up your spine as Barbara Covett, a disdainful and friendless history teacher grinding out her days in a grim London state school. When beautiful Sheba Hart (Academy Award?-winner Cate Blanchett) joins the staff, Barbara covets the pretty young thing?as a friend, she tells her diary. But desire and social envy explode when Barbara discovers Sheba?s illicit affair with a student, and uses the secret to blackmail her. Spellbinding acting by Dench (As Time Goes By, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Pride and Prejudice), Blanchett (Babel, The Aviator, The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean films, Love Actually). Based on the best-selling novel by Zo? Heller. Recommended for mature viewers.

Dame Judi says she found the role of Barbara Covett exciting. ?It can be very lovely when you?re asked to play something so different.?