Into the Light
- Synopsis
- Update from 2002-2003 of the celebrated American television science fiction/horror/fantasy anthology series, hosted by Forest Whitaker. A high school teacher decides to leave the profession, feeling that she is failing to connect with her disaffected pupils. She is teaching ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to her students. She sets them a paper entitled, ‘If they had lived would Romeo and Juliet have stayed together or were they just Shakespeare’s version of Justin and Brittany?' The teacher, who sees a light in the faces of people who are soon to die, ultimately gives up her life to save students and staff when a disturbed member of her English class starts a shooting spree from the rooftop of the school.
- Series
- The Twilight Zone
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada; United States
- Medium
- Television
- Notes
- An uncredited remake of the Rod Serling episode ‘The Purple Testament’ from the first season of The Twilight Zone, which originally aired on 12 February 1960. The title was a quotation from Shakespeare’s Richard II.
- Subjects
- Drama; Shakespeare
- Keywords
- teaching
Credits
- Director
- Lou Diamond Phillips
- Writer
- Moira Kirland
- Cast
Forest Whitaker Reed Diamond Samantha Mathis
Production Company
- Name
New Line Cinema
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