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An innocent, a scoundrel, a great film, and a star is born

Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard in "An Education."

“An Education” tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who is the target of a sophisticated seduction by a 35-year-old man. This happens in 1961, when 16-year-old girls were a great deal less knowing than they are now. Yet the movie isn’t shabby or painful, but romantic and wonderfully entertaining.

It depends on a British actress named Carey Mulligan , who in her first major feature role is being compared by everyone with Audrey Hepburn . When you see her, you can’t think of anyone else to compare her with. She makes the role luminous when it could have been sad or awkward. She has such lightness and grace, you’re pretty sure this is the birth of a star.

All very well and good, you’re thinking, but how is this film a romance? Oh, it’s not so much a romance between the teenager and the middle-aged man. That only advances to the level of an infatuation. It’s a romance between the girl, named Jenny, and the possibilities within her, the future before her, and the joy of being alive. Yes, she sheds a few tears. But she gets better than she gives, and in hindsight, this has been a valuable experience for her.

But wait? Doesn’t this girl have parents? She certainly does. Jack and Marjorie ( Alfred Molina and Cara Seymour ) are proper, traditional middle-class parents in the London suburb of Twickenham, and there’s nothing but love in the home. They aren’t wealthy or worldly, but they wish the best for their girl and are bursting with pride that she’s won a scholarship to Oxford. Then she springs David ( Peter Sarsgaard ) on them.

This is a smooth operator. He sees her standing at a bus stop in the rain, holding her cello case. He offers her a lift in his sports car. He engages her in conversation about classical music. He “happens” to run into her again, and they have a nice chat. He wonders if she might enjoy…

You see how it goes. He opens a door she eagerly wants to enter, to concerts, plays, restaurants, double dates with his fascinating friends, talk about the great world when the boys at school have nothing to say. At some point, it must become clear to her that he intends to sleep with her if he can, but by now she’s thinking that he very possibly can.

I forgot to tell you about her parents. They dote and protect, but are very naive. David is good-looking, well-dressed, well-spoken and very, very polite. He has “taken an interest” in Jenny because, why? He is impressed by this young woman’s mind and enjoys sharing his advantages. He offers implicit guarantees of her safety, and they’re so proud of her, they believe a wealthy older man would be interested for purely platonic motives. They’re innocents. Jenny will be safe with him for a weekend in Paris — because he has an aunt who lives there and will be her chaperone?

Paris! The city embodies Jenny’s wildest dreams! And to see it with a worldly dreamboat like David, instead of going there on the boat-train with a grotty, pimply 17-year-old! Is she cynically taking advantage of David for her own motives? Well, yes. Now close your eyes and remember your teens and tell me you don’t forgive her at least a little.

Part of the genius of “An Education” is that it unfolds this relationship at a deliberate pace. Sarsgaard plays an attractive, intelligent companion. He is careful to keep a distance. Must be a good trout fisherman. To some degree, he’s truthful: He enormously enjoys this smart, pretty girl. He loves walking along the Seine with her. He knows things about the world that she eagerly welcomes.

Yes, he’s also a rotter, a bounder, a cad, a dirty rotten scoundrel. But you can’t get far in any of those trades if you’re not also a charmer. To some degree, Jenny welcomes being deceived. The screenplay by Nick Hornby (“ About a Boy ” and “ High Fidelity “) is based on a memoir by a real person, the British journalist Lynn Barber. It became well-known in the U.K. that when she was 16, she had a two-year affair with a man named Simon in his late 30s.

There are many scene-by-scene parallels between book and movie, and much closely adapted dialogue. We know that Lynn Barber is smart and that she was pretty when she was 16. But her affair wasn’t such a great experience, at least not in its second year. What transforms it in “An Education” is Mulligan, who has that rare gift of enlisting us on her side and making us like her. She’s so lovable that whatever happens must be somehow for Jenny’s benefit. She glows.

So young women, let this movie offer useful advice. When a man seems too good to be true, he probably isn’t — good, or true. We all make mistakes when we’re growing up. Sometimes we learn from them. If we’re lucky, we can even learn during them. And you must certainly see Paris. Do not count on meeting the aunt.

Barber writes: “What did I get from Simon? An education — the thing my parents always wanted me to have… I learned about expensive restaurants and luxury hotels and foreign travel, I learned about antiques and Bergman films and classical music. But actually there was a much bigger bonus than that. My experience with Simon entirely cured my craving for sophistication. By the time I got to Oxford, I wanted nothing more than to meet kind, decent, straightforward boys my own age, no matter if they were gauche or virgins. I would marry one eventually and stay married all my life and for that, I suppose, I have Simon to thank.”

Lynn Barber’s full account: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/jun/07/lynn-barber-virginity-relationships

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Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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Every now and then a performance comes along that takes Sundance by storm. This year, it's Carey Mulligan's star-making turn as a 16-year-old schoolgirl who falls under the spell an older man in early '60s London in "An Education."

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PARK CITY — Every now and then a performance comes along that takes Sundance by storm. This year, it’s Carey Mulligan’s star-making turn as a 16-year-old schoolgirl who falls under the spell an older man in early ’60s London in “An Education.”

Topped by a fine cast, a first-rate script by Nick Hornby and tight direction by Lone Scherfig, the film is a smart, moving but not inaccessible entry in the coming-of-age canon. Sony Pictures Classics scooped up the picture after a heated bidding war and should do well with its investment.

Scherfig and her team — production designer Andrew McAlpine and costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux — do a convincing job creating a repressed London still reeling from the war and not yet exploding with the counterculture. It’s a period when a seismic shift is just starting to stir.

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Oct. 8, 2009

Literature is full of cautionary tales of innocent young women seduced by smooth-talking rakes. Jenny, a dutiful student and a passionate consumer of modern novels and French pop records, has surely encountered more than a few such stories. But at 16 and in a terrible hurry, she seems less inclined to learn from the mistakes of wayward romantic heroines than to join their ranks.

In a Henry James novel, Jenny would be an eager American ingénue arriving in Europe to drain the cup of experience to its dregs. But in “An Education,” a sprightly and slippery new film adapted from a short, sharp memoir by the British journalist Lynn Barber, she is a middle-class adolescent, languishing in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961.

Jenny, played with preternatural wit by the 24-year-old British actress Carey Mulligan, is passionate, inquisitive and smart, bound for Oxford and stifled by her starchy private school and her anxious, proper parents (Cara Seymour and Alfred Molina).

One rainy afternoon, a snake slithers into the drab little garden of Jenny’s life, and her curiosity about this suave stranger is accompanied by a sense of relief. At last, something is going to happen. He seems quite harmless at first interesting, but not in a dangerous way. His name is David, he is around 30, reasonably handsome (played by the quietly dashing Peter Sarsgaard), Jewish and fluent in a language of style and culture that Jenny is only beginning to learn. Noticing that she is lugging her cello, David chats with her about the British composer Edward Elgar, and before she knows it, he is squiring her to art auctions and concerts, plying her with Champagne and cigarettes and airy, high-minded talk.

Another shoe is sure to drop, but the director, Lone Scherfig, and the screenwriter, Nick Hornby, let it float gradually and gently to the ground. It is vital to the movie’s delicate, comic tone that intimations of the predatory, duplicitous aspects of David’s character do not emerge too suddenly. Jenny is smitten, and so, rather astonishingly, are her parents, in particular her conservative and unworldly father, who all but delivers his daughter to her seducer tied up in a bow, believing that this is an opportunity for her social advancement.

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An education isn't always by the book.

Carey Mulligan Peter Sarsgaard Dominic Cooper Rosamund Pike Olivia Williams Alfred Molina Cara Seymour Sally Hawkins Emma Thompson James Norton Amanda Fairbank-Hynes William Melling Connor Catchpole Matthew Beard Ellie Kendrick Nick Sampson Bel Parker Luis Soto Olenka Wrzesniewski Bryony Wadsworth Ashley Taylor-Rhys Beth Rowley Ben Castle Mark Edwards Tom Rees-Roberts Arne Somogyi Paul Pilot Phil Wilkinson Kate Duchêne

Director Director

Lone Scherfig

Producers Producers

Amanda Posey Finola Dwyer

Writer Writer

Nick Hornby

Original Writer Original Writer

Lynn Barber

Casting Casting

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Barney Pilling

Cinematography Cinematography

John de Borman

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James D. Stern Wendy Japhet David M. Thompson Jamie Laurenson Nick Hornby Douglas Hansen

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Andrew McAlpine

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Anna Lynch-Robinson

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Paul Englishby

Sound Sound

Glenn Freemantle Richard Straker Gareth Bull Adam Mendez Simon J. Willis Jack Stew Andrea King

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Odile Dicks-Mireaux

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Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou

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The part after they have sex and she says something like "I expected more"..... Iconic™

Review by Sara Clements ★★★★

Jenny's parents are way too chill. She's 16, brings home an older guy, and they're like, "Cool...Would you like some tea?"

Review by hannah ★★★½

pros: - carey mulligan - rosamund pike

cons: - man

Review by His Royal Majesty James of House Cameron ★★★½ 6

I thought I'd never say this, but here goes: An Education is feminism done right. I had given up trying to find it, but the story of 16-year old british girl in 1960s London is a perfect example of what a female tour de force should be. Jenny (Carey Mulligan) lives a cloistered life under the ruling thumb of a very controlling father who has mapped out an entire future for her, mostly regarding a good education and a good marriage. At home, she dreams of a life outside those four walls, with some adventure and romance. She is then lured out of her hole by David (Peter Sarsgaard), an older man who takes her through the looking-glass, showing her…

Review by adrian ★★★½

Carey Mulligan has more talent in her left dimple than I’ve ever had in my entire life.

Review by issy 🥝 ★★★

me all day on twitter: everybody look at all these middle aged actors I don’t know whom I am in love with! They belong to me and I declare it! I wish to marry all of them and no one can stop me! The ceremony will be huge! I will wear a custom Paolo Sebastian gown covered in rich beads and gems and my delicate hair will be braided by the nimble fingers of the forest nymphs! The wine served will taste as sweet as our endless love and we shall dance until the evening closes its doors, looking back on our forever as if it could see our lives playing out on a silver screen! Oh how it is to be in love! me as soon as jenny mellor is approached by a middle aged man: WHAT ARE YOU DOING ARE YOU INSANE

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Commentary with Director Lone Scherfig and Actors Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgaard

The making of an education, walking the red carpet, deleted scenes, rotten tomatoes® score.

Bigelow’s Hurt Locker got the glory. But Lone Scherfig’s An Education is the better film

It is ever so slightly warped, capped off with a delightful, cheeky soundtrack...

Adapted by Nick Hornby from a memoir by Lynn Barber, this is an enjoyably bracing portrait of a romantic misadventure.

Carey Mulligan’s breakthrough performance in An Education deserves the affection it’s getting and serves as the film’s easiest selling point.

Soundtracked by the sensuous jazz of the Swinging Sixties, the film is at once stylish and soul-searching, a thoughtful meditation on the pitfalls of grasping for adulthood too soon.

It is spoiled ... by a rather predictable script and a conventional denouement, and the narrow outlook to which it seems to subscribe.

An Education offers the thrilling sight of a smart young woman in charge of her own sexuality.

Lone Scherfig and her cast and crew give us all AN EDUCATION. Go straight to the head of the class with AN EDUCATION!!

But it's [Carey] Mulligan who shines throughout, bringing a wide-eyed naïve endearing charm to her character, her intelligence and pragmatism making Jenny far more than just a silly schoolgirl.

Nick Hornby wrote the screenplay by inflating a fragment of Lynn Barber's memoir, failing to disguise the thinness of the material.

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Release Date : October 8, 2009
Languages : English, Spanish
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19 Films About Teachers That Will Make You Laugh, Cry, And Cry Some More

I wish I could have had some of these teachers while growing up!

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As the summer ends and the school year begins , it's time to throw on some classic movies to get in the learning mood. Here are some of the best fictional teachers from films:

1. embeth davidtz as miss honey in matilda (1996).

A woman in a light-colored outfit stands in a classroom holding a vase of flowers on a teacher's desk, with an American flag and bulletin board behind her

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "This film adaptation of a Roald Dahl work tells the story of Matilda Wormwood ( Mara Wilson ), a gifted girl forced to put up with a crude, distant father (Danny DeVito) and mother (Rhea Perlman). Worse, Agatha Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), the evil principal at Matilda's school, is a terrifyingly strict bully. However, when Matilda realizes she has the power of telekinesis, she begins to defend her friends from Trunchbull's wrath and fight back against her unkind parents."

2. Jack Black as Dewey Finn in School of Rock (2003)

Jack Black plays drums in a classroom, surrounded by young students

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Overly enthusiastic guitarist Dewey Finn (Jack Black) gets thrown out of his bar band and finds himself in desperate need of work. Posing as a substitute music teacher at an elite private elementary school, he exposes his students to the hard rock gods he idolizes and emulates — much to the consternation of the uptight principal ( Joan Cusack ). As he gets his privileged and precocious charges in touch with their inner rock 'n' roll animals, he imagines redemption at a local Battle of the Bands."

3. Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray in To Sir, with Love (1967)

Sidney Poitier in a classroom setting, sitting at a desk with a vase of pink flowers, books, and a box, with chalkboards in the background

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "American Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) recently received his degree in engineering, but cannot find work. To make ends meet, he takes a job as a teacher in a rough London East End school populated mostly with troublemakers who were rejected from other schools for their behavior. While the students at first see Thackeray as just another teacher open for ridicule and bullying, his calm demeanor and desire to see them succeed gradually earn him their respect."

4. Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society (1989)

Robin Williams stands on a desk teaching students in a classroom, conveying an engaging and unconventional teaching style

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "A new English teacher, John Keating (Robin Williams), is introduced to an all-boys preparatory school that is known for its ancient traditions and high standards. He uses unorthodox methods to reach out to his students, who face enormous pressures from their parents and the school. With Keating's help, students Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke) and others learn to break out of their shells, pursue their dreams and seize the day."

5. Woody Harrelson as Mr. Bruner in The Edge of Seventee n (2016)

Hailee Steinfeld and Woody Harrelson sit across from each other at a desk in a classroom, engaged in conversation

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Everyone knows that growing up is hard, and life is no easier for high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother Darian (Blake Jenner) starts dating her best friend Krista (Haley Lu Richardson). All at once, Nadine feels more alone than ever, until an unexpected friendship with a thoughtful teen (Hayden Szeto) gives her a glimmer of hope that things just might not be so terrible after all."

6. Denzel Washington as Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007)

Denzel Washington, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, and two young boys sit at a table in a classroom, focusing on reading books in a serious discussion

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Poet and professor Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) teaches at the predominately Black Wiley College in 1935 Texas. He decides to start a debate team, something nearly unheard of at a Black college. While at first he butts heads with the influential father (Forest Whitaker) of one of his best debaters, eventually, he is able to form a team of strong-minded, intelligent young students, and they become the first black debate team to challenge Harvard's prestigious debate champions."

7. Julia Roberts as Katherine Ann Watson in Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

Julia Roberts riding a bike with a group of high school girls, all on bikes with baskets, in a park. The scene is lively and evokes a sense of camaraderie

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students including Betty (Kirsten Dunst) and Joan (Julia Stiles) to challenge the lives they are expected to lead."

8. Laura Dern as Miss Riley in October Sky (1999)

Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern stand facing each other; Jake is holding a book and Laura is smiling at him in a classroom setting

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "John Hickam (Chris Cooper) is a West Virginia coal miner who loves his job and expects his sons, Jim (Scott Miles) and Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal), to follow in his footsteps. But Jim gets a football scholarship, and Homer becomes interested in rocket science after seeing Sputnik 1 crossing the sky. John disapproves of his son's new mania, but Homer begins building rockets with the help of friends and a sympathetic teacher (Laura Dern). Rocketry, he hopes, will prove his ticket to a better life."

9. Paula Patton as Ms. Blu Rain in Precious (2009)

Gabourey Sidibe, wearing a light-colored hoodie, and Paula Patton, in a dark blouse, share a heartfelt moment indoors

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Pregnant by her own father for the second time, 16-year-old Claireece 'Precious' Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) can neither read nor write and suffers constant abuse at the hands of her vicious mother (Mo'Nique). Precious instinctively sees a chance to turn her life around when she is offered the opportunity to transfer to an alternative school. Under the patient, firm guidance of her new teacher, Ms. Rain (Paula Patton), Precious begins the journey from oppression to self-determination."

10. Richard Dreyfuss as Glenn Holland in Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)

An older man in a tuxedo conducts an orchestra before an audience

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Composer Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) believes that he'll eventually write a transcendent piece of music, but in the meantime, he's taken a job at an Oregon high school. Though at first the job frustrates him, and his unconventional methods often draw the ire of the straight-laced vice principal (W.H. Macy), Mr. Holland grows to love his students as the 'temporary' position stretches into a decades-long career — and in the end, they reveal just how much they love him back."

11. François Bégaudeau as Francois Marin in The Class (2008)

A man wearing a collared shirt stands in front of a chalkboard, engaged in conversation with another person whose hand is visible in the foreground

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Francois Marin (François Bégaudeau) is a French language and literature teacher at an inner-city Paris high school. As the new school year begins, he introduces himself to his new class and begins the arduous process of reaching out to each of them. Marin encounters his share of problem students, teen violence, ethnic tensions between classmates, and education barriers within the group, all of which test his patience and — more importantly — his resolve as an educator."

12. Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes in Detachment (2011)

A man in a suit sits at a desk looking at papers while a woman in a striped shirt and black vest stands by, classroom setting, an American flag in the background

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody) is a substitute teacher who shuns emotional connections and never stays long enough in one district to bond with his students or colleagues. Troubled and lost, Henry lands at a public school where an apathetic student body and disinterested parents have created a frustrated, burned-out group of teachers and administrators. Inadvertently, Henry becomes a role model to his disaffected students and bonds with a teenage runaway who is just as lost as he is."

13. Robin Williams as Dr. Sean Maguire in Good Will Hunting (1997)

Robin Williams touches Matt Damon's shoulder in a study with vintage furniture. Matt reads a paper, and both are engaged in a serious conversation

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard), who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire (Robin Williams)."

14. Tina Fey as Ms. Norbury in Mean Girls (2004)

Tina Fey sits at a desk speaking to Lindsay Lohan, who stands beside a vintage computer in a classroom setting with a bulletin board labeled "MATH."

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "Teenage Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was educated in Africa by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly-knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed 'the Plastics,' but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname."

15. Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000)

A football coach leads a team practice on a field. Players wear white uniforms with helmets

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, an institution revered, each game celebrated more lavishly than Christmas, and each playoff distinguished more grandly than any national holiday. And with such recognition, comes powerful emotions. In 1971 high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the local school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white school, the very foundation of football's great tradition was put to the test."

16. Samuel L. Jackson as Coach Ken Carter in Coach Carter (2005)

Samuel L. Jackson in a coaching huddle with a basketball team wearing warm-up shirts

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "In 1999, Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) returns to his old high school in Richmond, California, to get the basketball team into shape. With tough rules and academic discipline, he succeeds in setting the players on a winning streak. But when their grades start to suffer, Carter locks them out of the gym and shuts down their championship season. When he is criticized by the players and their parents, he sticks to his guns, determined that they excel in class as well as on the court."

17. Eugenio Derbez as Sergio in Radical (2023)

Scene from a movie where a man in a white shirt interacts animatedly with others, hands raised. The setting appears to be a room with scattered furniture.

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "In a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption, and violence, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through his students' apathy and unlock their curiosity, their potential... and maybe even their genius. Based on a true story."

18. Morgan Freeman as Principal Joe Clark in Lean On Me (1989)

A teacher points to a raised hand of a student in a classroom. A chalkboard with educational notes is visible in the background

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "In this fact-based film, a New Jersey superintendent, Dr. Frank Napier (Robert Guillaume), watches helplessly as East Side High becomes the lowest-ranked school in the state. With nowhere else to turn, Dr. Napier enlists maverick ex-teacher Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) to take over as principal of the declining school. Unfortunately for Clark, before he can focus on improving the student body's state exam scores, he has to somehow rid the school of its gang and narcotics problems."

19. Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988)

Jaime Escalante, wearing a cardigan over a plaid shirt, stands in front of a blackboard with algebraic equations, smiling and giving two thumbs up

About the movie, via Rotten Tomatoes: "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 want him to control his raucous classroom. Caught in the middle, he opts to immerse his students in higher math. After intensive study, his students ace California's calculus test, only to learn that their scores are being questioned. They'll have to retake the exam in order to quiet the critics."

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