Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
Estelle Harris
Secretary

Mark Phelan
Cop
Virginia Paris
Raquel Ortega

Eliot
Tito (as Mark Eliot)