Ahead of the Class
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2005-08-05
Runtime: 94 mins
Director: Adrian Shergold
Writer: Robert Jones
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama, TV Movie
Original title: Ahead of the Class
Production Companies: ARG Televison, Worldwide Productions
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Cast
Julie Walters
Reece Dinsdale
Tony Slattery
Michelle Fairley
Inday Ba
Anton Lesser
Danny Nussbaum
Hannah Yelland
Adrian Rawlins
Katherine Parkinson
Calum MacNab
Bernard Holley
Mercedes Grower
Alan McKenna
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