Bad Teacher

Bad Teacher (2011) skewers the saccharine world of middle school education with a gleeful, subversive spirit. Cameron Diaz stars as Elizabeth, a lazy and cynical educator who despises her students and her job alike. When her wealthy fiancé calls off their impending nuptials, Elizabeth is reduced to teaching again, all for the sake of funding a cosmetic surgery. The film's sharp wit and dark humor are deployed with abandon, as Elizabeth wreaks havoc on her school's moral order, embodying the worst excesses of adult selfishness in a setting ripe for satire.