Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver1988

Director: Ramón Menéndez
Stars: Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Mark Phelan, Virginia Paris, Eliot
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 103 minutes

Based on a true story, this inspiring American Playhouse production stars Edward James Olmos as a high school teacher who motivated a class full of East L.A. barrio kids to care enough about mathematics to pass an Advanced Placement Calculus Test. N… more »



Jaime Escalante:
...Did you know that neither the Greeks nor the Romans were capable of using the concept of zero? It was your ancestors, the Mayans, who first contemplated the zero. The absence of value. True story. You *burros* have math in your blood... A negative times a negative equals a positive. Why?

Jaime Escalante:
We're gonna need a lot of Kleenexes - there's gonna be a lot of bloodshed.

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