Term Of Trial

Olivier proves that there is one thing he cannot do by playing a wimp in this contrived drama. Olivier is a spineless schoolteacher working at a difficult institution. He has been sent there because he is a pacifist, and his reward is assignment at the toughest facility his superiors can find. Olivier likes to think of himself as a man of principles, but those principles have only resulted in scorn and disdain, mostly from his wife, Signoret, who taunts him unmercifully. The school's students are rowdy, unruly, and care little for bettering their northern England lot in life. When teenager Miles asks Olivier to tutor her, he is thrilled that at least one of the stu...