"After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist."
Sidney Poitier
as Mark Thackeray
Christian Payton
as Wilsie Carrouthers
Dana Eskelson
as Evie
Fernando López
as Danny Laredo
Casey Lluberes
as Rebecca Torrado
Michael Gilio
as Frankie Davanon
LZ Granderson
as Arch Carrouthers
Bernadette Speakes
as LaVerne Mariner
Jamie Kolacki
as Stan Cameli
Saundra Santiago
as Louisa Rodgriguez
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
as Emily Taylor
Lulu
as Barbara Pegg
Judy Geeson
as Pamela Dare
Daniel J. Travanti
as Horace Weaver
Peter Bogdanovich
Director
Richard Stenta
Producer
Trevor Lawrence
Original Music Composer
Dianne Ryder-Rennolds
Editor
LunYé Marsh
Key Hair Stylist
Jane Brody
Casting
Gary Baugh
Production Design
Deborah Edell Underwood
Associate Producer
William Birch
Director of Photography
Lisa Wolff
Set Decoration
Chey Greene
Key Makeup Artist
Robert E. Warner
Unit Production Manager
Philip Rosenberg
Writer
E.R. Braithwaite
Characters