The sort of movie that image-conscious minority leaders are always clamoring for: an Upbeat Story centered around a Positive Role Model, in this case the factual story of the new math teacher (a positive role model in all but his posture) at a tough high school in East Los Angeles. The story is not really dramatizable, or anyway not really dramatized, and the subject of study is not very filmable (as compared, say, with what's taught in Hoosiers). It's much more something for the Sunday supplement. Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips; directed by Ramon Menendez. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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