Front of the Class

Front of the Class (2008) is a drama you can watch online on iFILM, based on the real life of teacher Brad Cohen, who has lived with Tourette syndrome since the age of six.

The tics never stop — sudden sounds, sharp movements that classmates mock and teachers mistake for misbehavior. Brad decides to become the kind of educator he never had. Twenty-four schools turn him down. The twenty-fifth says yes.

James Wolk plays Brad, with Treat Williams and Patricia Heaton as the mother who refused to reduce her son to a diagnosis. Director Peter Werner adapts Cohen's own memoir and keeps the focus on stubbornness rather than pity, on a man teaching everyone around him to see past the noise. A quiet, warm pick for anyone after an underdog story without the melodrama. Stream Front of the Class online on iFILM.