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Movie Review: In 'Radical,' an unorthodox teacher in a violent Mexican border town
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This image released by Participant/Pantelion Films shows Eugenio Derbez in a scene from "Radical." - photo by Participant/Pantelion via AP
On their first day sixth grade, the students of Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary School in the Mexican border city of Matamoros find their new teacher rolling on the floor surrounded by overturned desks. They’re not desks, he exclaims. They’re lifeboats.