Ahead of the Class

Name: Ahead of the Class
Genre: Drama
Released: 2005-01-30
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Julie Walters, Inday Ba, Reece Dinsdale

TV Movie
2005
1h 34m

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7.0/10

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Drama

Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs (Dame Julie Walters), a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortu... Read allDrama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs (Dame Julie Walters), 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 northwest London, which was facing closure after the notorio... Read allDrama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs (Dame Julie Walters), 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 northwest London, which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995, as he was breaking up a fi... Read all

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When Marie Stubbs (Dame Julie Walters) confronts the staff she quotes "If thou of fortune be bereft" by U.S. poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), sometimes known as "Buy hyacinths for thy soul".

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8/10

A Feel good film for the masses

Certainly not the best film I've ever seen Julie Walters do but definitely thought provoking.

Julie Walters portrayal of Glasgow born Headmistress Mhairi Stubbs was fantastic. She makes the character stand out like a head of school should. And Julies Glasgow accent, phenomenally done, a Real blast from home, You would never suspect she was a midlands girl after watching this.

The film successfully displays the atmosphere to be found in a lot of schools all over the country even mine once or twice. This film encourages the viewer to look back on school experiences and smile.

Ahead of the class made for an enjoyable and at times gripping movie experience and personally, I would watch it again.