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Released
1999 · FILM

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

A top‑ranking high‑school senior must outwit her manipulative history teacher’s deadly mind games to clear her name and protect her valedictorian future.

“Before school lets out, Mrs. Tingle's class is going to need a substitute teacher.”

Directed by
Kevin Williamson
Written by
Kevin Williamson
Runtime
96 min
ComedyThriller

Synopsis

A high school senior on the verge of graduating with top honors faces a threat to her valedictorian status when her history teacher, Mrs. Tingle, gives her a low grade on a class project. As she tries to improve her standing in the class, things go wrong, leading to chaos and putting friendships, loyalties, and trust to the test as Mrs. Tingle plays complex psychological games.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Debra Neil FisherShot by Jerzy ZielinskiScored by John FrizzellDesigned by Naomi Shohan

Box Office

1999 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$8.9M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$8.9M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $3.3M — 37% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $4.9M — 55% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,710 theaters

Also known as

  • Tötet Mrs. Tingle!de
  • Killing Mrs. Tingleit

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