Up the Down Staircase
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"Simple words that start a war: "Good morning. My name is Miss Barrett. I am your Home Room teacher...""
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 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?
Robert Mulligan
DirectorSandy Dennis , Patrick Bedford , Eileen Heckart
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Director | Robert Mulligan |
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Language | English |
Producer | Park Place Production |