Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- mathematics
- education
- based on true story
- teacher
- drop-out
- high school teacher
- mexican american
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Edward James Olmos
Jaime A. Escalante
Lou Diamond Phillips
Angel Guzman
Rosanna DeSoto
Fabiola Escalante
Andy Garcia
Dr. Ramirez
- Estelle Harris — Secretary
- Mark Phelan — Cop
- Virginia Paris — Raquel Ortega
- Eliot — Tito (as Mark Eliot)
- Adelaida Alvarez — Sexy Girl
- Carmen Argenziano — Molina
- Bodie Olmos — Fernando Escalante
- Vanessa Marquez — Ana Delgado
- Graham Galloway — Craig
- Daniel Villarreal — Chuco
- Manuel Benitez — Heavy Metal Boy
- Directed
- Ramón Menéndez
- Written
- Tom Musca, Ramón Menéndez
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 445 ratings
- Studio
- American Playhouse, Olmos Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
