Stand and Deliver

A true story about a modern miracle. The School. The Teachers. The Parents. The Students. No one cared, except one man. He was the new maths teacher. Lou Diamond Phillips, star of La Bamba and Young Guns, in a controversial true story of success against all the odds. When Jamie Escalante first began teaching at Garfield High in East Los Angeles, he found a school ravaged by gang violence, lack of discipline and drug abuse. A year later he had threatened, humoured and inspired an unruly class of troublemakers into passing an exam in advanced calculus with honours. How he accomplished this was judged a miracle. The authorities however thought it was a lie. Convinced the students had cheated, their grades were made invalid despite all protests. But they were given a choice: accept the verdict and have the matter dropped - or sit the gruelling test again. And their landmark decision was to Stand & Deliver, � Warner Bros Inc.