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| Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 11, 1988 |
Starring:
Adelaida Alvarez, Carmen Argenziano, Edward James Olmos, Eliot, Estelle Harris, Ingrid Oliu, Mark Phelan, Patrick Baca, Virginia Paris, Will Gotay
Summary:
The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.
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Stand and Deliver itself, with its message of the soaring rewards of learning, aims high and delivers perhaps a B+. But it's already a better, less cliched film than La Bamba, with considerably more on its mind, and its strengths may pave the way for more complex, more demanding stories of the Latino experience for all audiences.
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Stand and Deliver is a kind of thinking man's Rocky: melodramatic, full of street-level emotion, with a knockout of an ending that may even convince you that good can occasionally triumph against implausible odds. [07 Apr 1988]
Stand and Deliver does what it promises. It delivers. [30 Mar 1988, p.1D]
It's a stand-up-and-cheer kind of movie -- hence the Rocky comparison -- with the unlikeliest of heroes. [30 Mar 1988, p.D1]
There were moments in Stand and Deliver that moved me very deeply and other moments so artificial and contrived that I wanted to edit them out, right then and there. The result is a film that makes a brave, bold statement about an unexpected subject, but that lacks the full emotional power it really should have.
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