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Title: One of the great feel-good movies
Review: Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, a high school math teacher in the bario of E. Los Angeles. He decides to teach a class of tough-guy kids calculus, but more, he teaches them self-respect. The message is greatly inspirational and it's hard not to want to jump up and cheer at the end, but for anyone who's ever stood in front of a classroom there are some problems with real-world issues. First off it looks as if Olmos teaches only one class at school - what about his other classes? All the kids are eating out of his hands before long (they are able to keep their home/peer problems separate from school), and everyone succeeds at the end, even after they've all been accused of cheating and take the test again. Like I said, it's a great feel-good movie, and Olmos is excellent as Escalante - just take some of it with a grain of salt.
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