A Class Apart

Name: A Class Apart
Genre: Drama
Released: 2007-03-23
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Jessie Wallace, Nathaniel Parker, Sanchez Adams

TV Movie
2007
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

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Drama

A working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of her campaign, he is intrigued, and offers h... Read allA working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of her campaign, he is intrigued, and offers her son a place at his school, betting that he can turn the boy's life around.A working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of her campaign, he is intrigued, and offers her son a place at his school, betting that he can turn the boy's life around.

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7.0/10

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Trivia
Tony Grounds: The British screenwriter is Mr. Evans.

Soundtracks
I Don't Need a Man
Written by Rich Harrison (as Rich Harrison), Kara DioGuardi and Nicole Scherzinger
Performed by The Pussycat Dolls
Courtesy of Geffen Records

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2/10

Cliché city

My guess is that somebody at the BBC must have promised Jessie Wallace a star 'vehicle' after EastEnders, and this was it. Here she gets to outdo herself in EastEnderishness. Admittedly she does this very efficiently, but who needs it? Everything in this film is clichéd to the ultimate degree. The characters are stereotypes one and all.

Nathaniel Parker plays the standard posh public school person that he has cornered the market in. He is actually the head of a public school in this one. Only he goes silly over Jessie Wallace and her son (who live in the worst street in Britain). He's engaged in a feud with his deputy head and giving a place to a boy from the gutter is part of that.

The boy himself has an accent quite unlike the familiar EastEnders one of his mother and the rest of the family. How is that to be explained? I found him quite hard to understand.