Plot
After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.
Cast
Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray
Christian Payton
Wilsie Carrouthers
Dana Eskelson
Evie
Fernando López
Danny Laredo
Casey Lluberes
Rebecca Torrado
Michael Gilio
Frankie Davanon
LZ Granderson
Arch Carrouthers
Bernadette Speakes
LaVerne Mariner
Jamie Kolacki
Stan Cameli
Saundra Santiago
Louisa Rodgriguez
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Emily Taylor
Lulu
Barbara Pegg
Crew
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
Richard Stenta
Producer
Trevor Lawrence
Original Music Composer
William Birch
Director of Photography
Philip Rosenberg
Writer
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