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Ahead of the Class

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Ahead of the Class — Plot

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.

  • Release date
  • August 5, 2005
  • Runtime
  • 94 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, TV Movie
  • Director
  • Adrian Shergold

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Ahead of the Class — Cast

Julie Walters photo Julie Walters Marie Stubbs Reece Dinsdale photo Reece Dinsdale Sean Devlin Tony Slattery photo Tony Slattery Stuart Stiles Michelle Fairley photo Michelle Fairley Sonia Venning Inday Ba photo Inday Ba Trudy Gower Anton Lesser photo Anton Lesser Graham Ranger Danny Nussbaum Thomas Moreira Hannah Yelland photo Hannah Yelland Tracey O'Leary

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