First-Time Viewing

Stand and Deliver

Release Date:March 11, 1988

Running Time:103 min

Genres:Drama

Director

Cast

Edward James Olmos Lou Diamond Phillips Rosanna DeSoto Andy Garcia Estelle Harris Mark Phelan Virginia Paris Eliot Adelaida Alvarez Carmen Argenziano Bodie Olmos Vanessa Marquez

Top billed cast (via TMDB).

Synopsis

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

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