Excluded (2010)

Recommended

UK

Short Television Film

Director: Misha Manson-Smith

Writers: Ben Bickerton, Brian Fillis

Cinematographer: Ashley Rowe

Cast: Bryan Dick, George Whitehead, Craig Parkinson, Monica Dolan, Nicholas Sidi, Juliet Cowan, Perry Benson, Karl Collins, Brendan Mackey

Having just given up a well paid but unfulfilling job, Ian Bateley, an idealistic, newly qualified teacher, starts work teaching maths at an inner-city comprehensive school, which the principal is busily trying to bump up to academy status, where he comes up against an unruly pupil, who he eventually manages to tame, an achievement seemingly beyond his peers, as the boy is soon threatened with exclusion (expulsion), in this compelling, well acted, and thoroughly credible feeling BBC drama. Iain.Stott