The Hobart Shakespeareans
Sep 06, 2005 | IMDB 4
52 min Watch NowDocumentary
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.
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IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 2005
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IMDB 0 | Oct , 2022
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1985
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IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 2018
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IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 2015
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IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2003
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IMDB 0 | May , 2022
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IMDB 7.5 | Jun , 1997
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IMDB 7 | Jan , 2009
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IMDB 6.1 | Jan , 2020
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IMDB 7.5 | Dec , 2020
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