You know a movie showing him being stripped of his chair of mathmetics and going back to Bolivia would be better than the ultimately false “Stand and Deliver.” Ultimately false because it shows hope and victory for the inner city public school and their students, when the reality was a battle won and ultimate loss of the war.
I didn’t like the movie because it didn’t ring true to me. Now I know why — they left out the ending.
The movie Stand and Deliver was made in 1988, Escalante lost his chairmanship in 1990 and left in 1991. So unless the producers had a time machine, there was no way to include that in the movie.
This is a movie that needs a sequel.