A family sues staff at a high school for allowing their son to graduate without being able to read, but their lawyer falls for a washed-up teacher as the case progresses. Comedy, with Jobeth Williams, Nick Nolte, Judd Hirsch and Lee Grant.

A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.