Teachers (1984)
They fall asleep in class. Throw ink on each other. Never come in Mondays. And they're just the teachers.
107 min
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
- Release date
- October 5, 1984
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Nick Nolte as Alex Jurel
- JoBeth Williams as Lisa Hammond
- Judd Hirsch as Vice Principal Roger Rubell
- Ralph Macchio as Eddie Pilikian
- Allen Garfield as Carl Rosenberg
- Lee Grant as Dr. Donna Burke
- Richard Mulligan as Herbert Gower
- Royal Dano as Kenneth 'Ditto' Stiles
- William Schallert as Principal Eugene Horn
- Art Metrano as Troy
Crew
- Arthur Hiller · Director
- W.R. McKinney · Writer
- Aaron Russo · Producer
- David M. Walsh · Cinematographer
- Don Zimmerman · Editor
- Dianne Crittenden · Casting director
- Richard Macdonald · Production designer