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Stand and Deliver
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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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy earnest underdog dramas about dedicated mentors, collective achievement, and education as a path toward possibility.
- Tone
- uplifting, warm, sentimental
- Payoff
- inspiration, catharsis
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- education, perseverance, mentorship, opportunity, prejudice
- Setting
- late twentieth-century, underserved urban high school
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