Notes on a Scandal

Drama

Judi Dench	Barbara Covett
Cate Blanchett	Sheba Hart
Tom Georgeson	Ted Mawson
Michael Maloney	Sandy Pabblem
Joanna Scanlan	Sue Hodge
Shaun Parkes	Bill Rumer
Emma Kennedy	Linda
Syreeta Kumar	Gita
Andrew Simpson	Steven Connolly
Philip Davis	Brian Bangs

Director	Richard Eyre
Producer	Robert Fox; Andrew Macdonald; Redmond Morris
Writer	Patrick Marber; Zoe Heller

Notes of a Scandal depicts the story of a new young grade-school teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), who is befriended by an older Barbara (Judi Dench). When Sheba starts an affair with a younger student as a way of escape from her older husband (Bill Nighy), she is discovered by Barbara, who promises, as a friend, not to give away her secret if she breaks off the relationship. Eventually, however, Sheba falters, and finds her friendship with Barbara to be increasingly awkward and clausterphobic.