Stand and Deliver

Name: Stand and Deliver
Director: Ramón Menéndez
Genre: Drama
Released: 1988

Ramón Menéndez • 103 min • 1988

Drama

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

Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy Garcia, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan

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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.