Overview

A Jewish parole officer, Jeff Solomon White, struggles in his new role as a reading teacher for illiterate teens at a New York high school. Hard Lesson film Raised by African American parents, White sees the situation differently and is motivated to fight for his students, who face an almost certain life of crime and prison

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Cast

Jonathan Sale

Glynn Turman

Kevin Sawyer

Ella Joyce

Anita Sawyer

Frank Vincent

Chuck D

Heather Tom

Marsha

Thomas Mikal Ford

Kimberly Bailey

Joel Weiss

Rabbi

Carmel Macklin

Secretary