Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)

Such a sweet, sweet movie...and so, so underrated... I'll never understand why some of the worst movies make it to DVD, but the gems sit around and wait for their turn.I adored the story line! Bud Cort plays an innocent, scattered, simple/warm-hearted man who tries to teach students in a small town in Canada. At first the students are disrespectful loud-mouths, but grow to become compassionate individuals when Cort's character (Max Brown) inspires them.I cannot get over how endearing Bud Cort is in this film. All he wants is to be loved, and to love someone else, but he has a failed romance with an already-married woman, who is also lost in her own troubles. All you want to do is sympathize with his character, especially in the beginning, when he was trying to become adjusted to this unfamiliar town with people who couldn't understand him.I would say that this is one of Bud Cort's top 5 best film roles. (Along with Harold and Maude, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Brave New World, and Ted and Venus).

I think that the movie, "Why Shoot the Teacher," was pretty accurate in displaying what really went on during the 1930s. It showed many difficulties people had during the Great Depression, such as unemployment. The movie focuses on one man, Max Brown who decides to go to the Prairies to work as a teacher. We watched with anticipation and curiosity to see how he would do with the new children. I believe the movie was effective because they displayed Mr. Brown as a very innocent man. During hard times, we feel sorry for him, because he is such a nice man and is struggling to stay on his own feet with people trying to walk all over him. In the end, I think the movie wasn't bad. I think it was very helpful in giving us some insight to what really happened during such harsh times.

This is a good movie, set in the 1930's and accurately portrayed by the events and the history of the depression in Canada. If u are looking for a fun movie to watch-don't watch this, but if you need an insight into the way of life during the prairies in Canada in the 1930's this movie is what you need. This movie does a good job of showing how employment and basic needs such as shelter, food, and water were rare and hard to find during the depression. It also shows the trends and life in the 1930's and gives you a look back in time, at how things were. This movie doesn't have a good picture or sound but it is informative. This movie is about a teacher, who during the hard times moves to the Prairies, in such of a job to make a living. ----Full Summary---- This movie, is about a Canadian teacher, Max Brown who is forced to move to the prairies, by borrowing money to find a job. When he arrives, Max also does not receive food/water supplies and has a hard time fitting in and surviving in this new place. He is hired to teach a class of students from grades 1-10, who misbehave sometimes. He also finds himself, in company with Alice, the wife of a farmer in Saskatchewan. He receives $20 a month, which is much less then previously negotiated and somehow resists urges of taking the train to back home. Max later has a brief relationship with Alice and manages to control his class before the school year ends and he goes back home before returning the next year.

I think that why shoot the teacher is a good example of how life was like in the Parries during the depression. It shows how they had limited food and heating. Everything had to be rationed and some people were to proud to ask for help. So this movie is a good example of how life was like back then.This movie was very boring. It wasn't exactly what I expected I aleast thought that it would be more interesting the plot was too simple. I doesn't have any complexity.The ending was very weak. My god they guy hates the place and then the movie ends by saying that he goes back some ending. I cant believe people actually watched this movie back then standard were very low.