Stand and Deliver - 8 stars out of 10

Stand and Deliver - 8 stars out of 10

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational teacher who believes in a hopeless group of low-level math students. Though they are unable to multiply fractions at first, Jaime Escalante's creative (and often unorthodox) teaching methods capture their attention, driving them to enroll in summer school to study trigonometry and eventually taking the AP Calc exam the following spring. Edward James Olmos' portrayal is inspiring as he fights racism, the system, and takes interest in the well-being of his students' lives (sometimes instead of his own). I do not find it to be as inspiring as Stand By Me and Mr. Holland's Opus, but the closing scene of this inspirational story will surely leave you with a significant amount of warm fuzzies.