Up the Down Staircase

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Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it? Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

  • SKU: PID0307289
  • UPC: 085391144762
  • Format: DVD
  • Condition: NEW
  • Aspect: 1.66:1
  • Language: ENG
  • Rating: NR
  • Region: 1
  • Release Date: 2007-11-06
  • Runtime: 124
  • Availability: On Order, Ships in 5 to 7 Business days

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    This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 04 December, 2008.