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Mood:
- BleakGloomyDisturbingRough
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Plot:
- Dedicated EducatorHardcase StudentsTeachers and StudentsAdolescence Vs AdulthoodFish Out of WaterHigh School LifeLife is a BitchLifestyle more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 60s
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Place:
- New YorkUSAHigh SchoolUrban Ghetto
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Up the Down Staircase, 1967
English
USA
Profile of Up the Down Staircase
Up the Down Staircase can be described as bleak, gloomy, and disturbing. The plot revolves around hardcase students, a dedicated educator, and adolescence vs. adulthood. The main genres are drama and independent. In approach, Up the Down Staircase is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, at a high school. Up the Down Staircase is located in New York. It takes place in the 1960s. It is based on a book.
Summary of Up the Down Staircase
The forerunner to such films LEAN ON ME and STAND AND DELIVER, this hilarious, heartwarming tale follows the efforts of an idealistic young teacher (Sandy Dennis) hired to teach English to inner-city high school students. Soon she finds herself going head to head with the administration in order to better educate her students. Dennis and her kids form the core of this film that explores with sympathy and humor the issues that hobble the American public school system and champions the teachers who throw themselves on the line every day they go to work. Based on Bel Kaufman's best selling novel.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 July 1967 |
| Runtime: | 124 min |
Cast and Crew
as Sylvia Barrett
as Paul Barringer
as Henrietta Pastorfield
as Beatrice Schacter
