TIFF 2025: The Boys Will be Alright in 'Steve'

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Steve lives in the face of Cillian Murphy. As the titular teacher at an all-boys school for last chances, he is the antidote to every “cool math teacher” strewn across television canon. Steve isn’t just the head teacher of Stanton Wood; he is a human with his own set of difficulties that flow in and out of the walls of a school being loosely held together by a dedicated staff. Nothing like the cameras floating around Abbot Elementary , Steve and his colleagues are challenged by a documentary film crew that descends upon their crumbling college. In front of the cameras, a vulnerable faculty and class spill beans about their struggles while praising the institution that keeps them all employed or out of jail.

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