Ahead of the Class (2005)

08/05/2005 (GB) • 1h 34m

Drama, TV Movie

Overview

Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.

Top Billed Cast

Julie Walters

Marie Stubbs

Reece Dinsdale

Sean Devlin

Tony Slattery

Stuart Stiles

Michelle Fairley

Sonia Venning

Inday Ba

Trudy Gower

Anton Lesser

Graham Ranger

Danny Nussbaum

Thomas Moreira

Hannah Yelland

Tracey O'Leary

Adrian Rawlins

Tony Mackersie


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

high school

based on true story

headmaster

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