Stand and Deliver
At a tough school, someone had to take a stand...and someone did. Together, one teacher and one class proved to America they could...
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.
- Director
- Ramón Menéndez
- Worldwide
- $14M
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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.
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- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Actor
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Box Office & Release
Stand and Deliver returned 8.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $2M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $14M
- Release date
- Mar 11, 1988
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- United States of America
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