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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.
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Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray
Christian Payton as Wilsie Carrouthers
Dana Eskelson as Evie
Fernando López as Danny Laredo
Casey Lluberes as Rebecca Torrado
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