Bad Education (2019)

Jack, Amy, and I really liked this based-on-a-true story of fraud in a wealthy Long Island public school district in the early 2000s, adapted from the New York Magazine article The Bad Superintendent. We watched it on HBO in May (it's also available on Hulu and Amazon Prime). The stars include Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Geraldine Viswanathan, Annaleigh Ashford, and Ray Romano. Cory Finley directs from the screenplay by Mike Makowsky, who attended Roslyn High School in New York, which is in the district where the story is set.

At the time I made a note that I liked the classical music by Michael Abels.

Not to be confused with Almadóvar's searing Bad Education (2004 - La mala educación), this one is averaging 94% from Rotten Tomatoes' critics and 83 from its audiences.

Jackman was last blogged for The Front Runner, Janney for Tallulah, Viswanathan for Blockers, Romano for The Big Sick (I didn't mention him for The Irishman), Finley for Thoroughbreds, and Abels for See You Yesterday. Ashford is a Tony-winning and -nominated stage actress and singer (we saw her on Broadway in Kinky Boots)–my favorite of her screen roles is her 37 episodes of Masters of Sex.