Ahead of the Class (2005)
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.
- Date of release
- 2005-08-05
- TMDB
- 7.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Director
- Adrian Shergold
Casting
- 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
- Katherine Parkinson — Vicky Foley
- Calum MacNab — Jason Foley
- Bernard Holley — Bill Stubbs
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