They fall asleep in class. Throw ink on each other. Never come in Mondays. And they're just the teachers.
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
October 5, 1984
United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
65 people
Nick Nolte
Alex Jurel
Acting
JoBeth Williams
Lisa Hammond
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Judd Hirsch
Roger Rubell
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Ralph Macchio
Eddie Pilikian
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Allen Garfield
Carl Rosenberg
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Lee Grant
Dr. Donna Burke
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Richard Mulligan
Herbert Gower
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Royal Dano
Ditto Stiles
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William Schallert
Horn
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Art Metrano
Troy
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Laura Dern
Diane
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Crispin Glover
Danny
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