After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in an inner city school proves to be too much to resist.
Sidney Poitier
as Mark Thackeray
Christian Payton
as Wilsie Carrouthers
Dana Eskelson
as Evie
Fernando López
as Danny Laredo
Casey Lluberes
as Rebecca Torrado
Michael Gilio
as Frankie Davanon
LZ Granderson
as Arch Carrouthers
Bernadette Speakes
as LaVerne Mariner
Jamie Kolacki
as Stan Cameli
Saundra Santiago
as Louisa Rodgriguez
Cheryl Lynn Bruce
as Emily Taylor
Lulu
as Barbara Pegg
