Detachment

Adrien Brody stars as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he's not alone in this vicious, loveless world.