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Where to Watch Up the Down Staircase (1967) in the US
- 1967
- Approved
- 2h 4m
- 7.3IMDb
- 78%Rotten Tomatoes
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What it's about
Sylvia Barrett is a rookie teacher at New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High: her lit classes are overcrowded, a window is broken, there's no chalk, books arrive late. The administration is concerned mainly with forms and rules (there's an up and a down staircase); bells ring at the wrong time. Nevertheless, she tries. How she handles the chaos and her despair in her first semester makes up the film: 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. A discussion of Dickens, parents' night, and a mock trial highlight the term. Can she make it?
Cast and crew
- Director
- Robert Mulligan
- Writer
- Bel Kaufman, Tad Mosel
- Starring
- Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis, Eileen Heckart
Details
- Release date
- Jun 28, 1967
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total
Where to Watch Up the Down Staircase (1967) in the US — common questions
- Where to watch Up the Down Staircase in the United States?
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- We have not confirmed a free option for Up the Down Staircase in the United States.
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