Movie Review: In 'Radical,' an unorthodox teacher in a violent Mexican border town
“Radical” is a conventional but stirring entry in the crowded canon of uplifting educator tales.
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“Radical” is a conventional but stirring entry in the crowded canon of uplifting educator tales.
"Radical," which opens in theaters Friday, is a conventional but stirring entry in the crowded canon of uplifting educator tales like "Stand and Deliver," "Lean on Me" and "The Class."
A galvanizing Mexican schoolteacher turns a classroom of apathetic students into high achievers in this conventional yet stirring drama starring Eugenio Derbez.
On their first day sixth grade, the students of Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary School in the Mexican border city of Matamoros find their new teacher rolling on the floor surrounded by overturned desks. They’re not desks, he exclaims. They’re lifeboats. So begins Christopher Zalla’s “Radical,” an inspirational based-on-a-true-story drama about an unconventional teacher named Sergio
The film tells the tale of Sergio Juarez Correa (Eugenio Derbez), a sixth-grade teacher at Jose Urbina Lopez Primary School in Matamoros, Mexico in 2011, where gangs employ and recruit school-age boys.