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...

Stand and Deliver (1988)

Timing: 1:43 (103 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1988-03-11

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, American Playhouse, Olmos Productions

Genre

Drama

Budget

Revenue

$13 994 920

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Director

Ramón Menéndez

Actors

Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy García, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris, Eliot, Adelaida Alvarez, Carmen Argenziano
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Scenario

Tom Musca, Ramón Menéndez

Producer

Tom Musca, Lindsay Law

Operator

Tom Richmond

Composer

Craig Safan

Artist

Arlan Jay Vetter

Audition

Jaki Brown, Toni Livingston

Editing

Nancy Richardson
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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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