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To Sir, with Love
Why this pick
Like Up the Down Staircase, it finds hard-won dignity and idealism inside an urban classroom, with a teacher learning to reach students dismissed by the wider system.
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MOVIE1967 2h 4m USA
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Why this pick
Another sharply observed portrait of a charismatic woman teacher, balancing witty classroom vitality with the troubling consequences of imposing personal ideals on young minds.
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A Patch of Blue
Why this pick
It shares the humane 1960s social realism, New York texture, and patient belief that attentive connection can offer refuge from a harsh environment.
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Hester Street
Why this pick
For the same unvarnished New York realism and empathy for people negotiating institutions and social expectations, told with intimate character detail rather than melodrama.
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Why this pick
Its energetic, socially alert portrait of a young person straining against class pressures echoes the unsentimental compassion and vivid urban milieu surrounding the students in Up the Down Staircase.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sandy Dennis
Sylvia Barrett
Patrick Bedford
Paul Barringer
Sorrell Booke
Dr. Bester
Roy Poole
Mr. McHabe
Florence Stanley
Ellen Friedenberg
Jeff Howard
Joe Ferone
Martha Greenhouse
Mrs. Kagan
Frances Sternhagen
Charlotte Wolf, school librarian