Sundance Film Festival 1988: Stand and Deliver
Dramatic Competition (aka Walking on Water)
Setting: Los Angeles
Genre: Drama, based on a true story
Topic/Issues: A man in his 50s gives up his engineering job to teach math in a barrio high school. Figuring that his students are smart but inadequately taught he teaches them calculus.
Budget: $1.35 Million
Awards: Edward James Olmos, Best Actor Oscar nomination
Distributor: Warner
Released Date: March 1988
Box-Office: about $14 million
