reform school

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The actor stars alongside Tracey Ullman and Emily Watson in a film that follows the weary employees and difficult students of an English reform school.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

It comes as the Irish actor promotes his new film, Steve, which follows his titular character's attempt to turn around a 1990s reform school for troubled boys.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025

Keep in mind I had worked in a reform school for girls!

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2024

Tick’s research provides new details on Fitzgerald’s early life growing up in Yonkers, including the shattering death of her mother and a year spent in reform school.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2023

If I wasn’t convincing, I’d be sent off to a reform school with people like Billy Deel, and Mr. Becker would have the satisfaction of knowing he’d been right all along not to trust me.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls