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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American biographical 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.
Stand and Deliver: Directed by Ramón Menéndez. With Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris. The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.
- Ramón Menéndez
- 1 min
Watch the opening scene of Stand and Deliver, a 1988 movie about a math teacher and his students in East Los Angeles. The movie is based on a true story of overcoming challenges and achieving success in calculus.
- 10 min
- 18.2K
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
A biopic of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who inspired his students to learn calculus and overcome challenges. The film follows his unconventional teaching methods, his students' achievements and challenges, and his confrontation with the Educational Testing Service.
Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this inspirational true story about a teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences--calculus.
A film about a math teacher who inspires his students to pass a college calculus exam. Roger Ebert praises the film's bold statement but criticizes its artificial and contrived scenes.
Los Angeles high school teacher Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos) is being hassled by tough students like Angel Guzman (Lou Diamond Phillips). But Jaime is also...
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- Drama, Biography
- PG
