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Stand and Deliver (1988)

Stand and Deliver (1988)

PG 103 minutes EN 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...
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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Edward James Olmos
Jaime A. Escalante
Lou Diamond Phillips
Angel Guzman
Rosanna DeSoto
Fabiola Escalante
Andy García
Dr. Ramirez
Estelle Harris
Secretary
Virginia Paris
Raquel Ortega
Eliot
Tito (as Mark Eliot)
Bodie Olmos
Fernando Escalante
Vanessa Marquez
Ana Delgado

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Supervising Sound Editor
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Production companies: American Playhouse, Olmos Productions
Production countries: United States of America
Revenue: $13,994,920

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