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Actors: Edward James Olmos, Mark Eliot, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris Director: Ramón Menéndez Rating: Features: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 103 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Release Date: November 10, 1998 Theatrical Release Date: March 11, 1988 Studio: Warner Home Video
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Edward James Olmos's Oscar-nominated performance energizes this true-life story of a Los Angeles high school teacher who drives his students on to excellence at calculus.
Based on a true story, this inspiring American Playhouse production stars Edward James Olmos as a high school teacher who motivated a class full of East L.A. barrio kids to care enough about mathematics to pass an Advanced Placement Calculus Test. Not exactly a variation of To Sir, With Love, the film concerns itself with assumptions and biases held by mainstream authorities about disadvantaged kids, and Olmos's efforts to keep his students coolheaded enough to prove them wrong. Olmos, virtually unrecognizable as the pudgy, balding instructor, gives a career performance in this fine piece directed by Ramón Menéndez, and written by the director and Tom Musca. --Tom Keogh
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