One Terrible Student Pushes This Teacher Past Every Limit
Saoirse Ronan has officially entered her bad-teacher era, though Maria’s classroom nightmare is far darker than detention and a few missing homework assignments. The first official trailer for Bad Apples introduces Ronan as an exhausted primary school teacher whose patience is being shredded daily by one disruptive student—and whose attempt to regain control turns into a spectacularly unethical mess.
Maria wants to inspire her class, but ten-year-old Danny, played by newcomer Eddie Waller, keeps the room locked in chaos. After his behavior escalates and the pressure on Maria reaches breaking point, one physical confrontation leaves the boy unconscious. Instead of calling for help like a sensible adult, she panics, takes him home and locks him in her basement.
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The truly nasty punchline arrives when Danny’s absence makes everything better. Maria’s other students begin learning, the classroom settles down, and the adults around her celebrate the sudden improvement without asking enough questions about where the troublemaker went. What begins as panic slowly becomes a moral trap: if everyone is happier without him, how urgently does she really want to undo the crime?
Jonatan Etzler directs the biting comedy thriller in his English-language feature debut, working from a screenplay by Jess O’Kane. The film is loosely based on Rasmus Lindgren’s Swedish novel De Oönskade and uses Maria’s increasingly indefensible choices to poke at overwhelmed teachers, absent parents, underfunded schools and the easy ways institutions excuse their own failures.
Ronan is joined by Jacob Anderson, Rakie Ayola, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder, Kerry Howard and Nia Brown, but the trailer belongs to the uncomfortable tug-of-war between Maria and Danny. She is frightened, guilty and tempted by how peaceful life has become; he is furious, manipulative and still very much a child being failed by nearly every adult in the room.
The Bad Apples Poster Keeps The Smile Deliciously Wrong
The official artwork puts Maria’s carefully composed teacher smile against the film’s rotten classroom premise—bright, tidy and just unsettling enough.
Bad Apples premiered at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival and is scheduled to open in cinemas on September 18, 2026. The film runs approximately 100 minutes and arrives carrying the kind of pitch-black premise that makes every laugh feel slightly incriminating.
Watch Saoirse Ronan Make One Very Bad Decision
The official Bad Apples trailer follows Maria from classroom exhaustion to basement captivity as one desperate mistake becomes an increasingly impossible secret.
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