When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

• DirectorWes Anderson
• Release11 December 1998
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 33m
• Budget$9,000,000
• Revenue$17,096,053
• Rate
  

  7.397
  2551 reviews
• Productions

  Touchstone Pictures, American Empirical Pictures