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Ahead of the Class

Genres
Drama
TV Movie
Rating
7.4
Status
Released
Release Date2005-08-05
Runtime94 min
LanguagesEnglish
CountriesUnited Kingdom
IMDbView on IMDb

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.

Keywords
high school
based on true story
headmaster

Cast & Crew

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Julie Walters

as Marie Stubbs

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Reece Dinsdale

as Sean Devlin

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Tony Slattery

as Stuart Stiles

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Michelle Fairley

as Sonia Venning

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Inday Ba

as Trudy Gower

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Anton Lesser

as Graham Ranger

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Danny Nussbaum

as Thomas Moreira

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Hannah Yelland

as Tracey O'Leary

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Adrian Rawlins

as Tony Mackersie

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Katherine Parkinson

as Vicky Foley

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