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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. [3]
The movie was originally released in the United States on Laserdisc in 1996 [3] and on DVD on June 18, 1997, by Artisan Entertainment. [4] It was re-released on DVD and bundled with The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All in 2000. [5] As of 2020, the film was released on Blu-ray Disc in a few European countries, including Germany, in 2015 by NSM ...
The Substitute 2: School's Out is a 1998 [1] straight-to-DVD action-crime-thriller film directed by Steven Pearl and starring Treat Williams [2] as Carl Thomasson (later spelled Karl in the sequels), a mercenary who masquerades as a teacher in order to enter a tough urban school and wreak his revenge upon his brother's killer.
Excellent movie, but she will never ever subject herself to that again. #21. Big Fish. Amazing movie, great cinematography, good story. But i bawled like a damn baby at the end and now that my dad ...
Derbez said the movie features characters like Lupita (Mia Fernanda Solis) and Nico (Danilo Guardiola) who are based on composites of real student experiences from Juárez Correa’s classroom.
Eugenio Derbez plays an unorthodox teacher in a Mexican border city in the movie "Radical." (Pantelion via AP) "Radical," though, isn't set at an inner-city school in Los Angeles, New Jersey or ...
Put these two women together (as actors and characters) and they can accomplish just about anything. Watching them do it is a great movie experience." [15] Ruthe Stein of the San Francisco Chronicle called the film a "compelling if occasionally unnecessarily convoluted movie . . . The first 15 minutes or so are a mess . . .
Detachment is a 2011 American psychological drama film directed by Tony Kaye and written by Carl Lund. Its story follows Henry Barthes, a high-school substitute teacher who becomes a role model to his students and others.