Up the Down StaircaseMark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama |
Year | 1967 |
Country | USA |
Premiere | |
Budget | $0 |
Box | in world | $0 | USA | $0 | In other countries | $0 |
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Duration | 02:04 |
Storyline
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?