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Stand and Deliver
Directed by Ramón Menéndez
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. From TMDB
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Stand and Deliver is a 1988 drama film, directed by Ramón Menéndez, starring Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips and Rosanna DeSoto.
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60 of 76 · most liked firstDangerous Minds sucked, but the OG "teaching inner city kids" movie that it and so many others tried to emulate, Stand and Deliver, kicked ass.
positive · AI labelView post →the term "Stan" is short for the 1988 biographical film Stand and Deliver, staring Edward James Olmos
neutral · AI labelView post →coming soon in @bwdr.bsky.social: an essay on the film Stand and Deliver and what it meant to me, as a Bolivian American kid who went on to become a teacher, to see a Bolivian teacher and Latinx students on screen (+ what it says about Hollywood that I've rarely seen this since)
positive · AI labelView post →#Paws4Music Momb thinks Michelle Pfeiffer is so pretty. (I think I’m prettier, though.) Despite her beauty, her role in this video is a little goofy. From the movie Momb calls “Stand and Deliver for poetry instead of math”: Dangerous Minds youtu.be/fPO76Jlnz6c?...
neutral · AI labelView post →We tried going to the movie festival. They showed Stand and Deliver. I did great at first but then something spooked me and started having anxiety. At least I tried. 😔 Happy Sunday, everyone! 🎥🍿🐶
neutral · AI labelView post →To quote the classic film Stand And Deliver: "A negative times a negative equals a positive."
neutral · AI labelView post →“Stand And Deliver” Was a great movie starring Edward James Olmos - Haiku by Stu #haikufeels #stand
positive · AI labelView post →🎭 The odds were stacked against them, but teacher Jaime Escalante refused to let them fail. 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 released on this day, March 11, 1988 🎓 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Estelle Harris 👨🏫 #StandAndDeliver #Latinsky #LatinoCinema #FilmSky #Film
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering the wonderful Vanessa Marquez, talented film & television actress, on what should have been her 57th birthday. Beloved for her roles in STAND AND DELIVER, ER, FATHERHOOD, MANIAC COP III: BADGE OF SILENCE, and more. An incredible lady who was #BOTD on 12/21/1968.
neutral · AI labelView post →Recently remembered being shown Stand and Deliver in 8th grade, a movie about a driven educator motivating his students to learn calculus, and realized the teacher had to know that our high school topped out at trigonometry.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in 1988 Stand and Deliver was released. Vanessa Marquez played student Ana Delgado in the movie. #VanessaMarquez #StandAndDeliver
neutral · AI labelView post →Dead Poet's Society is a terrible film. As a baby Graduate Student Instructor, I paired it with Stand and Deliver to interrogate (with mixed success) how ideas about race and class inform what we might consider the goals of education. Carpe Diem for the privileged, ganas and sacrifice for the poor.
neutral · AI labelView post →Absolutely unhinged movie. Imagine if Stand And Deliver or Dangerous Minds turned into Death Wish 3 for the third act. It spawned a bunch of DTV sequels with Treat Williams.
neutral · AI labelView post →If he can't read, how do we expect him to know math too? I'm sure he saw "Stand and Deliver" movie back in the 1980s and didn't like the fact that Latino high schoolers knew more math than he did. Hence his immigration policies.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Mr. Olmos’s performance in 'Stand and Deliver' earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor and turned Mr. Escalante into an educational hero." #JaimeEscalante Born on this day in 1930. www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/u...
neutral · AI labelView post →84. Stand and Deliver The "teacher saves troubled kids" genre of biopic has never surpassed this movie and no one tell me otherwise. Chicano cinema is vital.
positive · AI labelView post →Located in Westlake, Juan Hector Ponce's mural "Los Angeles Teachers" features legendary Garfield High School teacher Jaime Escalante & Edward James Olmos, the actor who played him in the film “Stand and Deliver.” #NationalTeacherDay Google Arts & Culture-> artsandculture.google.com/story/hispan...
neutral · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver is gonna be a movie 🤧 🤧 #WWENXT
neutral · AI labelView post →Join us for a free outdoor screening of STAND AND DELIVER at Pueblo High School this Friday, March 28! Starts at 5pm with food vendors, student market & car show; movie starts at 7pm. Please bring your own seating. Part of Chicano Night presented by Pueblo High School M.E.Ch.A!
neutral · AI labelView post →Look, I love "Stand and Deliver." I love Jaime (Kimo). Apparently he is supposed to be around my age in the movie. *Sigh* I suppose it's time that I hang up the band shirts and start dressing up like this. I need to accept my fate. I guess I'll be hitting the clothing shops this weekend.
positive · AI labelView post →Every teacher I know has a teacher movie they love. "Dangerous Minds", ""Lean on Me", "Stand and Deliver" or "Freedom Writers" are what I usually hear. My teacher movie is "Sunmer School". He just wants to connect with his students and is all about their growth.
neutral · AI labelView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge Day 5 - Mexican heritage in a movie Stand and Deliver #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →And when night comes, and people want to rest a little, maybe a movie on a projector screen. Like Stand and Deliver. Just peacefully occupy space. I am so sorry, LA. The rest of us are next if you go home.
neutral · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver is a personal favorite. As someone who is Latinx and a math teacher, the film means a lot.
positive · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver (1988) starring Edward James Olmos -- the movie that stealth-launched "rigor & grit" charter school ed reform a generation before anyone called it that and got pulled out every time my middle school homeroom teachers had a hangover
neutral · AI labelView post →STAND AND DELIVER, the 1988 Edward James Olmos film, is structurally a sports film where the sport is AP Calculus. But for actual sports? Yeah BULL DURHAM is tops.
neutral · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver (1988) Director: Ramón Menéndez Cast: Carmen Argenziano, Andy Garcia, Edward James Olmos, Estelle Harris, Lou Diamond Phillips Watch Review, (Starts at: 06:57) wp / wd
neutral · AI labelView post →29 June 1962 – Amanda Donohoe, 63, English actress. Music Videos: Antmusic (1980) + Stand and Deliver (1981) Film/TV: Castaway * Game, Set and Match * The Lair of the White Worm * The Rainbow * The Madness of King George * Liar, Liar * LA Law * Murder City * Bad Girls * Emmerdale (2009–10)
neutral · AI labelView post →Ramon Menendez has directed very few movies, but he can take pride that at least two of them have probably been shown in Spanish classes (can confirm "Stand and Deliver" was shown in mine). letterboxd.com/mrcoat/film/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember this. Stand and Deliver was a pretty good movie, wasn't it?
positive · AI labelView post →just learned about movie Stand and Deliver, released in theaters in 1988. A real movie about PASSING AP CALCULUS
neutral · AI labelView post →en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_E... What makes this especially galling is that the US has a model for math equity: Jaime Escalante, the high school teacher who successfully taught calculus to Black and Hispanic kids at a failing high school. He was the subject of the film Stand And Deliver.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today in 1988 Stand and Deliver was released. Vanessa Marquez played Ana Delgado in the film. #StandAndDeliver #VanessaMarquez #AnaDelgado #EdwardJamesOlmos #LouDiamondPhillips
neutral · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver was of those movies on in the middle of the day on some random movie channel on the satellite dish, but it made a big impression on ten year old me for some reason.
positive · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver. I saw this film with my family when it opened at a theater near our house. I loved the movie. I thought it was terrific. I still do.
positive · AI labelView post →Happy 63rd Birthday To Lou Diamond Phillips Louis Diamond Phillips (Born Upchurch; February 17, 1962) Is A Filipino-American Actor And Film Director. His Breakthrough Came When He Starred As Ritchie Valens In The Biographical Drama Film La Bamba (1987). For Stand And Deliver (1988),
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 35 movies that have greatly influenced you, one a day for 35 days, no explanations, no reviews, just posters. #Movies #Filmsky #moviechallenge Day 27-Stand and Deliver
neutral · AI labelView post →American Me, starring Vanessa Marquez's Stand and Deliver co-stars Edward James Olmos and Daniel Villarreal, has been named to the National Film Registry. newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-film...
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order No explanations, no reviews, just gifs Day 7 - #7 Stand and Deliver #somosGALFA
neutral · AI labelView post →Been on a real late 80s movie kick the last two days, watched Stand and Deliver and Communion. I need some more to check out!
positive · AI labelView post →Wait… WAIT!!! So the Hugging Face Attack by OpenAI agents was basically like if the calculus kids from Stand and Deliver had actually cheated on those AP exams and spent the rest of the film trying to figure out how the ETS agents could prove they cheated. Bruh!!! Lmao 😂
neutral · AI labelView post →Page 355: "When inspiring Latino educators do appear, results can be striking: we saw this with the famous teacher memorialized in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, Jaime Escalante." Arana. M. (2024). LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority. Simon & Schuster, LLC. 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 64th Birthday To Lou Diamond Phillips Louis Diamond Phillips (Born Upchurch; February 17, 1962) Is A Filipino-American Actor And Film Director. His Breakthrough Came When He Starred As Ritchie Valens In The Biographical Drama Film La Bamba (1987). For Stand And Deliver (1988), Phillips Was
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my best friends said "a movie moment what like Stand and Deliver?" deadpan and I go "wait what the Edward James Olmos teacher movie" and promptly laughed so hard I threw up a little.
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been messing with AI images over the last few days and created these BTS shots from two of my favorite Latino movies: 'Stand and Deliver' and 'La Bamba.' They capture the most iconic scenes from each film. They're also completely AI fake.
neutral · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver ⭐️⭐️ ½ Flat Equation #SchoolDaze 2025 Film No. 25—Teachers, Mentors and Misfits I’d been told this one was inspirational, but I didn’t find much to inspire. Stand and Deliver tells the story of Jaime Escalante, a real-life... Continues at boxd.it/baFnvL #filmsky #moviechallenge
negative · AI labelView post →Yes! It was supposed to be his star-making performance, but the studio gave up on the movie. I've been meaning to rewatch it 'cuz I remember liking it quite a bit (even though it was *not* a sexy STAND AND DELIVER).
positive · AI labelView post →Today in 1989 Stand and Deliver swept the Film Independent Spirit Awards, winning Best Feature, Best Director (Ramón Menéndez), Best Male Lead (Edward James Olmos), Best Supporting Female (Rosanna DeSoto), Best Supporting Male (Lou Diamond Phllips), and Best Screenplay (Ramón Menéndez & Tom Musca).
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know, Stand and Deliver was released this week in 1988? The film is an American biographical comedy drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. #fypシ #trending #retro #nostalgia #genx #throwback
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Stand and Deliver is available today on (Amazon) (US) for $7.99 Cast: Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto, Andy Garcia, Will Gotay, Ingrid Oliu Genre: (Drama) (Movies Anywhere) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stand_and_...
neutral · AI labelView post →Don’t miss the Mexican film Radical- an inspirational real life film about a teacher. Shades of Stand and Deliver. My rating: 8/10. m.imdb.com/title/tt1457...
neutral · AI labelView post →Going to start a watch of Only the Strong for our GenreVision episode this week. Highly recommend a Mark Dacascos capoeira riff on Stand and Deliver/Dangerous Minds over tonight's election doomscrolling. 🎥📽️ #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the DVDs we enjoyed: "Stand and Deliver." Edward James Olmos plays a math teacher. A nice little movie with good performances. Nearly the whole cast is Latiné. I couldn't get the captions to work so I would like to watch again sometime.
positive · AI labelView post →Guy who thinks 'Stand and Deliver' is the greatest film ever made (close)
neutral · AI labelView post →December 31. A picture of Edward James Olmos being advised by Jaime Escalante on the set of the movie "Stand And Deliver". Jaime Escalante was born #OTD in 1930 in Bolivia and made history in East Los Angeles teaching calculus. "Ganas. That's all you need … ganas”. Go for it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw “Stand and Deliver” for the first time in forever, and my goodness, what a film. It sticks with me so deeply because, growing up in East LA, people have a certain expectation of who you are and what you can be.
positive · AI labelView post →Stand and Deliver directed by Ramon Menendez Big fan of Issaac Newton and any person who can do that kind of math. Admiral Adama (Edward James Olmos) was awesome as their teacher. A feel good, perception changing, true story movie.
positive · AI labelView post →The sads continue. Feeling strangely motivated to watch the movie genre where a single teacher inspires a student or kids to greatness. Stand and Deliver? Dead Poet's Society? Good Will Hunting? Sister Act 2? Where do I go with this
neutral · AI labelView post →Hello everyone, episode 70 of Yesterday's Matinee is now available on Spotify! Join Casey, @dongled.bsky.social and myself as we discuss the 1988 film #StandandDeliver. #EdwardJamesOlmos #LouDiamondPhillips
neutral · AI labelView post →Witness all the fallout from #StandandDeliver next when #WWENXT airs live on #TheCW! (in the U.S.; streams live internationally on #Netflix)
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