Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
Edward James Olmos
Lou Diamond Phillips
Rosanna DeSoto
Andy García
Estelle Harris
Mark Phelan
Virginia Paris
Eliot
Adelaida Alvarez
Carmen Argenziano
Bodie Olmos
Vanessa Marquez
Graham Galloway
Daniel Villarreal
Manuel Benitez
Will Gotay
Ingrid Oliu
Karla Montana
Lydia Nicole
Betty Carvalho
Irene Olga López