Stand and Deliver

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with a special 35mm big screen presentation of the 1988 classic Stand and Deliver, starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Andy Garcia and Edward James Olmos in his Oscar-nominated role as real-life high school teacher, Jaime Escalante!

Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this powerful, funny and inspiring true story about a determined teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences – calculus. Convinced that his students, including tough guy Angel Guzman (Lou Diamond Phillips), have untapped potential, Jaime adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and transform them from no-hopers into some of the country’s top math students. But the accomplishment is so utterly fantastic that the students are accused of cheating. Given a choice to accept the allegation or retake an extremely demanding examination to prove themselves, the students decide to Stand and Deliver! Winner of six Film Independent Spirit Awards (including Best Feature, Best Director and Best Actor), Stand and Deliver also “delivered” Olmos a Best Actor Academy Award-nomination for his thrillingly charismatic performance. Co-starring Andy Garcia, Rosanna DeSoto and Vanessa Marquez. (Dir. by Ramón Menéndez, 1988, USA,103 mins., Rated PG)