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Jaime A. Escalante
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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American 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]
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
In an environment that values a quick fix over education and learning, Jaime A. Escalante is a new teacher at James A. Garfield High School determined to change the system and challenge the students to a higher level of excellence.
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 pressured by his bosses, who ...
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- Ramón Menéndez
- PG
- Edward James Olmos
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.
Stand and Deliver (1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
“Stand and Deliver” tells the story of a high school mathematics teacher who takes a class of losers and potential dropouts and transforms them, in the course of one school year, into kids who have learned so much that 18 of them are able to pass a tough college credit calculus exam.
