Set in an esteemed and antagonistic east
coast music conservatory, Andrew Nyman (Miles Teller, exceptional) is a high - reaching and determined jazz drummer who wants to be nonpareil.
This tortuous film has a one - note plot: Terrence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons, «Labor Day»), a
music teacher at an elite east
coast conservatory where competition is in the DNA, discovers Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller, «The Spectacular Now»), a jazz drumming student with feverish ambitions to be recognized for his greatness.