“She gave them a gift they could never imagine. They gave the system a fight it would never forget.”
After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
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Cast & Crew
Meryl Streep
Roberta
Aidan Quinn
Brian
Angela Bassett
Janet
Gloria Estefan
Isabel
Cloris Leachman
Assunta
Josh Pais
Dennis
Jane Leeves
Dorothea
Kieran Culkin
Lexi at 15
Charlie Hofheimer
Nick at 17
Jay O. Sanders
Dan Paxton
Henry Dinhofer
Lexi at 5
Michael Angarano
Nick at 7
Robert Ari
Supervisor
Teddy Coluca
Taxi Driver
Barbara Gonzalez
Janet's Secretary
Jade Yorker
DeSean at 11
Victoria Gómez
Lucy at 10
Justin Pierre Edmund
Bongo Kid
Justin 'DJ' Spaulding
Naeem at 9
Zoe Sternbach-Taubman
Guadalupe at 9
Christopher Lopez
Adam
Ruben Jared Seraballs
James
Lucy Nonas-Barnes
Becky
Rosalyn Coleman
Mrs. Adisa
