Six Minutes to Midnight

[Available March 26 in theaters and various VOD platforms and played March 23 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups.] After a British English teacher (Nigel Lindsay) suddenly goes missing from the private, seaside, Anglo-German Augusta-Victoria College finishing boarding school at Bexhill-on-Sea in the South of England run by a devoted headmistress (Dame Judi Dench) for teenage German daughters (Maria Dragus, Tijan Marei, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, et al.) of Nazi High Command officers in August 1939 in Andy Goddard's engaging, gripping, factually inspired, suspenseful, 102-minute film highlighted by wonderful cinematography and musical score, a British spy (Eddie Izzard), who works with a British Secret Service colonel (David Schofield), turns up to take his place on the faculty and to prevent the duplicitous teacher/physical education instructor (Carla Juri) from aiding the Nazis in getting the students out of England on the eve of WWII, but when a murder occurs, he finds himself being surprisingly helped by the local bus driver (Jim Broadbent) when he is erroneously pursued by two government officers (James D'Arcy and Celyn Jones) while desperately trying to notify his superiors of valuable intel.
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