In May December, Todd Haynes takes the 1997 scandal in which Mary Kay Letourneau pleaded guilty to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child, and attempts to normalize it as an art-cinema exercise. He changes the facts of a sexual relationship between a 34-year-old schoolteacher and her twelve-year-old pupil and fabricates a meet-cute among younger and older co-workers at a pet shop. Haynes moves the crime from Seattle, Wash., to quaint Savannah, Ga.
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