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.

• American Playhouse
• Olmos Productions
• Edward James Olmos
• Lou Diamond Phillips
• Rosanna DeSoto
• Andy García
• Estelle Harris
• Mark Phelan
• Virginia Paris
• Eliot