Stand and Deliver backdrop

Stand and Deliver 1988 Directed by Ramón Menéndez

At a tough school, someone had to take a stand...and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could...

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.

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Languages English , Spanish
Gnere Drama
Production Companies American Playhouse , Olmos Productions
Revenue $13,994,920
Release Date 11 March 1988
103 mins
Cast
Edward James Olmos Jaime A. Escalante
Lou Diamond Phillips Angel Guzman
Rosanna DeSoto Fabiola Escalante
Andy García Dr. Ramirez
Estelle Harris Secretary
Virginia Paris Raquel Ortega
Eliot Tito (as Mark Eliot)
Bodie Olmos Fernando Escalante
Vanessa Marquez Ana Delgado
Manuel Benitez Heavy Metal Boy
Will Gotay Pancho Garcia
Ingrid Oliu Lupe Escobar
Karla Montana Claudia Camejo
Lydia Nicole Rafaela Fuentes
Betty Carvalho Angel's Grandma
Irene Olga López Lupe's Mother
James Victor Ana's Father