Radical

This impressive and uplifting based-on-real-life film set in an impoverished and overlooked Mexican school takes the old chestnut of inspiring-teacher-brings new-life-to-hopeless-pupils and reinvigorates it with a wonderful combination of humour, insight and originality. Enter Senor Juarez, a stand-in teacher who brings a whole new perspective to his teaching methods and in the process, finds genius where none had ever been discovered before. It’s an irresistible film that everyone should see - especially educationalists.

SYNOPSIS:
Who will the sixth grade students at Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary in Matamoros become? They are among the worst performing students in Mexico, the world they know is one of violence and hardship, and their classrooms are dominated by an atmosphere of overbearing discipline, not possibility. It might seem like a dead end... but it is also the perfect place for new teacher Sergio Juarez to try something different. There's just one problem: Sergio (played by an amazing Eugenio Derbez) has no idea what he's doing.

Details
Run time: 2h 5 mins
Certificate: 12
Director: Christopher Zalla
Writer: Christopher Zalla, Joshua Davis, Laura Guadalupe A
Cast: Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Haddad, Jennifer Trejo

Country: Mexico, USA
Genre: Drama
Language: Spanish