Tribeca Films finally announced that it will release Tony Kaye's Detachment in early 2012 in theaters as well as VOD and DVD. Woot! I admittedly have an Adrien Brody 'jones', so I have been awaiting some word on this since it played the Tribeca Film Festival last Spring. Both star and director (whose American History X reinvented Edward Norton and is a modern classic) got very good notices. 

Synopsis: Detachment is a chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of a substitute teacher named Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long enough to form any semblance of sentient attachment. A perfect profession for one seeking to hide out in the open. One day Henry arrives at his next assignment. Upon his entry into this particular school, a secret world of emotion is awakened within him by three women. A girl named Meredith in his first period. A fellow teacher Ms. Madison, and a street hooker named Erica, whom Henry has personally granted brief shelter from the streets. Each one of these women, like Henry, are in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world. 

The trailer is gripping. I love the tight shots of Brody's expressive face, coupled with the dispassionate delivery of his lines. This certainly left me wanting more.

Detachment also stars Christina Hendricks, Bryan Cranston (another great actor having a great year), James Caan, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, Maria Gay Harden, William Petersen, Tim Blake Nelson and Doug E. Doug. 

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