Ahead of the Class
2005 · 94 min
Drama · TV Movie
★ 7.4Drama 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.
Crew
- Director Adrian Shergold
- Writer Robert Jones
- Director of Photography David Odd
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
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Danny Nussbaum
Thomas Moreira
Hannah Yelland
Tracey O'Leary
Adrian Rawlins
Tony Mackersie
Katherine Parkinson
Vicky Foley
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Calum MacNab
Jason Foley
Bernard Holley
Bill Stubbs
Crew
- Director — Adrian Shergold
- Writer — Robert Jones
- Director of Photography — David Odd
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