Where to watch Stand and Deliver (1988) starring Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanna DeSoto and directed by Ramón Menéndez. Stream Stand and Deliver online today!. In this mostly true story, inner-city teacher Jaime Escalante inspires a classroom of rebellious remedial students to excel in mathematics.
Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this inspirational true story about a teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences--calculus. But the accomplishment is so utterly fantastic that the students are accused of cheating. Given a choice to accept the allegation or r.. An East L.A. teacher inherits an unmotivated crop of high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into mastering calculus.