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Esmeralda Santiago is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 17 may 1948 at San Juan (USA)
Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948) is a Puerto Rican author and former actress known for her novels and memoirs.
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Up the Down Staircase (1967)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart, Jean Stapleton, Ruth White, Sorrell Booke, Florence Stanley
Rating72%
The film's title is a reference to the staircases inside a public, overcrowded New York City high school with a number of troubled students. Sylvia Barrett, fresh out of graduate school, has just been hired to teach English to the teens in this place, who come from various races and ethnicities. Many are undisciplined; a few are hanging with gangs. She is confused at first by the required regulations, daily reporting and other paperwork. Her students also seem continually disruptive and playful. One girl has a crush on a male teacher, and tries to jump out of a window; another appears with a black eye. A boy on court probation, with a high I.Q. but a mixed academic record, tests her patience, while another boy works nights and falls asleep in class. Not everyone is agreeable with Sylvia's quiet approach to the situation, but she intends to get the teens to become good students and get them into real learning. She succeeds finally in getting them into a lively discussion about classic literature, followed by a lively mock trial, before weighing whether to continue or resign from her position.
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Almost a Woman (2002)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Wanda De Jesus, Míriam Colón, Cliff De Young, Francesco Quinn, Alexis Cruz, George Wyner
Rating60%