Stand and Deliver

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Amy & Paul stand for 1988's rousing math class drama Stand And Deliver! They ask if this is the first major 'indie' film, learn how Edward James Olmos crafted his commanding performance as Jaime Escalante, and investigate whether the real students depicted cheated on their exam. Plus: Lou Diamond Phillips explains how he got cast as Angel, and why poker requires top-notch math skills. This is the second episode of our "Back To School" miniseries; next week’s film is The 400 Blows! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. Also check out our live Spool Party episodes on youtube.com/earwolf! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 1988 and whether you're a finger man or a finger woman.
0:06.0	It's time to calculate mathematical success. The movie, Stand and Deliver.
0:11.0	Hello everybody and welcome to unspooled. I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and this is the podcast where we are building our ultimate 100 best
0:40.0	movie list. Last week we started off with Mean Girls. We are in the middle of a mini series right now called Back to School and one slot is still left open.
0:51.0	What would you like to see on this podcast? Make sure you tweeted us at hashtag back to unspooled to fill the last spot of this back to school mini series.
1:01.0	And Amy we have a great episode today. Some like a little bit of an outlier. I think this is like a bit of a forgotten classic here.
1:08.0	Yeah, I mean classic is right. I think I watched this film 9000 times. This is one of the films of my childhood and I cannot wait to get into it.
1:17.0	Well, let's just do exactly that.
1:22.0	The year is 1988. Prozac, laser eye surgery and crack make their grand debuts in America after eight years and 1.5 million deaths. The Iran Iraq war officially ends.
1:35.0	The world's first computer virus called the Morris Worm confounds tech heads and during the winter Olympics in Calgary the world meets and falls in love with Jamaica's national Bob's
1:45.0	story inspired a little film called cool running five years later which should be on this show. The cool kids are listening to Anya Kylie Minogue,
1:52.0	you two Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Guns and Rosa Chicago and George Michael and 1988 was a killer year for films.
1:59.0	We're talking a rainman who frame Roger Rabbit big twins die hard beetle juice coming to America and today's film stand and deliver.
2:08.0	Let's take a listen to a clip.
2:13.0	Minus two plus two equals.
2:17.0	A breaking net like a toothpick.
2:19.0	What a lie.
2:22.0	Zero.
2:25.0	Zero.
2:26.0	You're right. Simple.
2:28.0	That's it. Minus two plus two equals zero. He just filled the hole.
2:33.0	Did you know that neither the Greeks nor the Romans were capable of using the concept of zero?
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