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Ahead of the Class (2005)
Directed by Adrian Shergold
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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Julie Walters | Adrian Rawlins | Michelle Fairley | Anton Lesser | Martin Savage | Bernard Holley | Katherine Parkinson | Rosalind March | Reece Dinsdale | Alan McKenna | Danny Nussbaum | Charles Mnene | Inday Ba | Tony Slattery | Heather Craney | Hannah Yelland | Stuart Antony | Mercedes Grower | Calum MacNab | Daniel Anthony | Kate Lonergan | Heshima Thompson | Amanda Fahy | Neville Jason | Jason Frederick | Jack Bence | Gemma Lawrence | Millie Foster | Amy Jo Lamb | Frances Gold | Tina Asihene | Bhima Bent | Gerard Canning | Kanana Kirimi | Luke Savva | Gem Souleyman | James Wong | Dario Attanasio | Clara Foster