The premise is okay, albeit a bit worn-out (young male teacher gets into trouble by a seemingly flirtatious but in fact malicious student), and at least they gave the student a decent motive, instead of making her just an oversexed lunatic. But before we come to this, we have to accept a truckload of improbabilities.
Teacher Sam (Chris Klein) is apparently renowned and respected (so we may assume also intelligent), but within a split second of seeing his new neighbor girl Taran (Merritt Peterson), and right under the nose of his loving wife (Tanya Teles), he starts a heavy flirtation with her, and continues doing this even when he finds out that she's a student in his own class, thus blatantly defying every moral (and legal) code of conduct. He accepts of her a 10.000 dollar Rolex watch as a casual present, drives around in her slick BMW, and never fails a chance to be alone with her.
Apart from teacher Sam showing all kind of stupid behavior, it's also miraculous and never explained how Taran can plunder his bank account, can steal his car, or is able to make big property transactions in his name. Or how Sam's supposedly intelligent wife (who's by the way ten times more gorgeous and sexy than Tara) can stay so long blind for her husbands all too obvious infatuation, and then at last starts a totally irresponsible and illegal search by breaking in into Tara's house.
Anyway, in the last scenes we get some explanations and there's also a rather unexpected and cynical end to all this. But this hardly makes up for the rest. The reasonable acting of Peterson and Tanya Teles can't save it, and Chris Klein almost sleepwalks through the whole movie.
Teacher Sam (Chris Klein) is apparently renowned and respected (so we may assume also intelligent), but within a split second of seeing his new neighbor girl Taran (Merritt Peterson), and right under the nose of his loving wife (Tanya Teles), he starts a heavy flirtation with her, and continues doing this even when he finds out that she's a student in his own class, thus blatantly defying every moral (and legal) code of conduct. He accepts of her a 10.000 dollar Rolex watch as a casual present, drives around in her slick BMW, and never fails a chance to be alone with her.
Apart from teacher Sam showing all kind of stupid behavior, it's also miraculous and never explained how Taran can plunder his bank account, can steal his car, or is able to make big property transactions in his name. Or how Sam's supposedly intelligent wife (who's by the way ten times more gorgeous and sexy than Tara) can stay so long blind for her husbands all too obvious infatuation, and then at last starts a totally irresponsible and illegal search by breaking in into Tara's house.
Anyway, in the last scenes we get some explanations and there's also a rather unexpected and cynical end to all this. But this hardly makes up for the rest. The reasonable acting of Peterson and Tanya Teles can't save it, and Chris Klein almost sleepwalks through the whole movie.