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Ahead of the Class is a British film of genre Drama directed by Adrian Shergold with Julie Walters
Ahead of the Class (2005)
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Marie Stubbs is a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is close to the age of retirement. After being Head teacher at The Douay Martyrs School, Ickenham, she takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in North West London. The school is facing closure after its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, was murdered in 1995, while breaking up a fight between his pupils and students from a rival school.Actors
Julie Walters
(Marie Stubbs)
Inday Ba
(Trudy Gower)
Reece Dinsdale
(Sean Devlin)
Michelle Fairley
(Sonia Venning)
Hannah Yelland
(Tracey O'Leary)
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