Up the Down Staircase
by Robert Mulligan
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Actor: Eileen Heckart, Jean Stapleton, Patrick Bedford, Ruth White (II), Sandy DennisDirector: Robert Mulligan
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Up the Down Staircase
Movie Review: super movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a must see for teachers. It really helps one to see the humor and the obstacles teachers face. Sandy Dennis is wonderful as the naive new teacher and all that she goes through during her first year. I recommend highly.
Summary of Up the Down Staircase
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher with a can-do attitude at New York's inner city Calvin Coolidge High. Crowded classes, broken windows, lack of chalk and books are a few of the problems facing Sylvia, yet she carries on - even as a promising student drops out, another sleeps through class, a girl with a crush on a male teacher gets suicidal, and a bright but troublesome student misunderstands Sylvia's reaching out.Up the Down Staircase wasn't the first inspirational-teacher movie, but along with To Sir, with Love (also released in 1967), it seemed to set a pattern that gets brushed off every few years: Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers, etc. etc. And this one still holds up, thanks to the sensitive direction of Robert Mulligan and the central performance by Sandy Dennis. The latter plays an idealistic teacher starting the new term at an inner-city high school (stop me if you've heard this one before), and discovering that the teaching life has as much to do with corralling and motivating kids as it does with rote recitation of facts. All right, it's a familiar tale, but the impeccably authentic approach by Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird) and longtime producer (future director) Alan Pakula captures a bracing, semi-documentary feel at times. And then there's Sandy Dennis, fresh from winning a Supporting Actress Oscar for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the year before. Dennis was a famously polarizing presence in movies of this era; her reliably neurotic Method acting drove some viewers up the wall. Here the style works, as her overmatched but stubborn teacher weathers the usual, so to speak, ups and downs of a school year; Dennis's very fragility shines as a counterpoint to her determined character. --Robert Horton
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