Stand and Deliver

At a tough school, someone had to take a stand...and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could...

Title: Stand and Deliver
Overview: 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.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
Release Date: 11 March 1988
Actors: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy Garcia, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris, Eliot, Adelaida Alvarez, Carmen Argenziano, Rosanna DeSoto, Bodie Olmos, Vanessa Marquez, Graham Galloway, Daniel Villarreal
Certification: PG
Genres: Drama; IMDb