Bad Education review, Culture Whisper
Type ‘Bad Education movie’ into Google, and the UK search results will turn up Jack Whitehall’s odiously bad movie-sequel to his Bad Education series. But the title is one of the few similarities to director Cory Finley’s brilliant embezzlement drama, starring Hugh Jackman.
This latter and better Bad Education is based on the 2002 Rosalyn High School scandal, in which superintendent Frank Tassone stole millions from the school’s budget before being arrested in 2004.
Jackman plays Frank, who starts as Rosalyn’s all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful leader. He’s a deceptively attractive man, not (only) because he's a suited-up Hugh Jackman; he's just great at pretty much everything. He knows the name of every student, the details of every parent, the hobbies of every teacher. He even relishes the opportunity to discuss Dickens in a book club of smitten mothers. There’s no breaking his charming spell.
