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Ahead of the Class

68% | Aug 05, 2005 | Drama, TV Movie

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.

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Adrian Shergold
Director
Robert Jones
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Julie Walters
Marie Stubbs
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Reece Dinsdale
Sean Devlin
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Tony Slattery
Stuart Stiles
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Michelle Fairley
Sonia Venning
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Trudy Gower

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