Teaching Mrs. Tingle

Teaching Mrs. Tingle
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kevin Williamson
Written by	Kevin Williamson
Produced by	Cathy Konrad
Starring	Helen Mirren Katie Holmes Jeffrey Tambor Barry Watson Marisa Coughlan Liz Stauber Molly Ringwald Vivica A. Fox
Cinematography	Jerzy Zieliński
Edited by	Debra Neil-Fisher
Music by	John Frizzell
Production companies	Dimension Films Konrad Pictures Interscope Communications
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date	August 20, 1999 (1999-08-20)
Running time	96 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$14 million
Box office	$8.9 million

Teaching Mrs. Tingle is a 1999 American teen black comedy thriller film written and directed by Kevin Williamson in his directorial debut, and starring Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Marisa Coughlan, Barry Watson, and Jeffrey Tambor. It follows a trio of high school seniors who must prove their innocence to their vindictive history teacher, who accuses them of cheating on their final exams. Williamson wrote the script before his work on Scream and Dawson's Creek. Following the success of those projects, his script was picked up and production of the film proceeded.

Released in the United States on August 20, 1999, the film was originally titled Killing Mrs. Tingle and had a darker tone. It was delayed, re-edited and retitled due to the uproar over teen violence in films after the Columbine High School massacre.^[2] The film received mostly negative reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb.