A teacher who absolutely avoids to connect with his students or colleagues. A vulnerable soul related to a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school during his latest teaching year.
25 August 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 September 1954, South Bend, Indiana, USA
11 May 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
26 March 1940, The Bronx, New York, USA
3 May 1975, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
14 April 1973, Woodhaven, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
July 10, 2013
A bizarre, well intentioned mess, at the very least, Detachment is never dull...even as the film is bad, it's compulsively watchable.May 03, 2012
Detachment gets an A for enthusiasm but a C for execution.March 22, 2012
There's something weirdly effective about the artistic desperation, which includes inserts of chalkboard animation and to-the-camera testimonials.May 10, 2012
A loud, grating wallow in dime-store despair.March 22, 2012
Everywhere you turn in Detachment, someone is trying to make you feel like hell.September 16, 2012
Even a talented director like Tony Kaye (American History X) and a great performance from Brody can't save a mess like this.August 15, 2012
Detachment is the sort of film-of-the-week that ought to appeal to anyone who loves movies in the purest sense.January 22, 2013
While Adrien Brody gives it his all in his performance, the film suffers greatly from an attempt to equalize its multiple plotlines.February 05, 2013
It's a film so well paced with a message so relevant that it deserves an audience bigger than what it got and it deserves more of an emotional impact than will resonant throughout.July 15, 2012
Detachment has such original energy and is so infused with righteous anger that it proves hard to dismiss.May 04, 2012
The film is guilty of reverse sentimentality, where the relentless unhappiness comes to seem as manufactured and artificial as the schmaltz in a romcom.March 16, 2012
Detachment gets to you. It hits hard.