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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...
Mar 11, 1988 · 1h 43m
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Drama

PLOT

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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CAST

Edward James Olmos
Jaime A. Escalante
Lou Diamond Phillips
Angel Guzman
Rosanna DeSoto
Fabiola Escalante
Andy Garcia
Dr. Ramirez
Estelle Harris
Secretary
Mark Phelan
Cop
Virginia Paris
Raquel Ortega
Eliot
Tito (as Mark Eliot)
Directed by Ramón Menéndez

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
$1,600,000
Revenue
$13,994,920
Production
American Playhouse, Olmos Productions
Country
US

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