Up the Down Staircase

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-07-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

124 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1334 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Sandy Dennis Patrick Bedford Eileen Heckart Ruth White

Writer:

Bel Kaufman (novel)

Tad Mosel (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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?

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