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.
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
chicago, illinois
education
teacher
juvenile delinquency
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Letterboxd
3.2 / 5
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Cast
Sidney Poitier
Mark Thackeray
Dana Eskelson
Evie
Michael Gilio
Frankie Davanon
Saundra Santiago
Louisa Rodgriguez
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
Emily Taylor
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Barbara Pegg
Judy Geeson
Pamela Dare
Daniel J. Travanti
Horace Weaver
John Beasley
Greg Emory
Antonia Bogdanovich
Lynn Guzman
Neil Flynn
Detective Dennis
Joe Forbrich
Rob Doerr
Crew
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
Popular Reviews
3 reviews
Neil
5.0★ · 06/25/25
Love seeing Sydney reprising this role all the other stuff is mid
Love seeing Sydney reprising this role all the other stuff is mid
Tete
9.0★ · 05/17/25
The scene where evie reads that poem and ends up crying her way out reminds me so much of 10 things I hate about you
The scene where evie reads that poem and ends up crying her way out reminds me so much of 10 things I hate about you
mimi
6.0★ · 11/03/24
mr. thackeray is too old to be doing all this 😭😭😭😭
mr. thackeray is too old to be doing all this 😭😭😭😭