Ahead of the Class (2005)
Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.
- Released
- 2005-08-05
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Adrian Shergold
- TMDB rating
- 7.4/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Julie Walters as Marie Stubbs
- Reece Dinsdale as Sean Devlin
- Tony Slattery as Stuart Stiles
- Michelle Fairley as Sonia Venning
- Inday Ba as Trudy Gower
- Anton Lesser as Graham Ranger
- Danny Nussbaum as Thomas Moreira
- Hannah Yelland as Tracey O'Leary
- Adrian Rawlins as Tony Mackersie
- Katherine Parkinson as Vicky Foley
- Calum MacNab as Jason Foley
- Bernard Holley as Bill Stubbs