Stand And Deliver (1988)

Genre: Comedy; Drama

Studio: Warner Bros.

Cast: Edward James Olmos as Jaime A. Escalante; Estelle Harris as Estelle; Virginia Paris as Raquel Ortega; Mark Eliot as Tito; Adelaida Álvarez as Sexy girl; Will Gotay as Pancho; Patrick Baca as Javier Perales; Ingrid Oliu as Guadalupe Escobar; Carmen Argenzi

Color

Langauge: English

Director: Ramon Menendez; Ramón Menéndez

Producer: Tom Musca; Lindsay Law; Iya Labunka

Writer: Ramon Menendez; Tom Musca; Ramón Menéndez

An inspiring look at hope and failure in the educational system of urban Los Angeles. Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) is a high school math teacher at Garfield High School, whose students are unmotivated and surrounded by gangs and violence in their daily lives. Escalante inspires them to search inside for their best, taking them from a beginning grounding in high school math and giving his all in preparing them for college level calculus placement courses. He challenges their desires and motivations, as well as pushing himself to his mental and physical limits in bringing out the best that these students truly can be.

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