Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Edward James Olmos

Lou Diamond Phillips

Rosanna DeSoto

Andy Garcia

Estelle Harris

Mark Phelan

Virginia Paris

Eliot

Adelaida Alvarez

Carmen Argenziano