Bad Apples

BAD APPLES is a biting satirical comedy with a thriller aftertaste, full of uneasy laughs and an escalating series of events that keep things at or near boiling point. Set in England, and starring four time Academy Award® nominee Saoirse Ronan, BAD APPLES is loosely based on Rasmus Andersson’s debut novel De Oönskare, which brilliantly plants a mirror at society, lifting up the covers and showing the ethical hypocrisy that lies beneath many of our individual or collective decisions.

Ronan plays Maria, a primary school teacher doing her best to inspire a class of 11-year-olds but unable to because of one unruly and chaotic student. With her career in question and the child’s behaviour spiralling, she makes a series of bad decisions that lead to her accidentally taking and locking this "bad apple” in her home. She tries desperately to backtrack, but when the class starts flourishing and the staff and parents are thrilled with the improvement, she finds herself in a very complicated predicament. As entertaining as it is provocative, BAD APPLES challenges us to think about our society’s systems and how we justify them to ourselves.