Puzzle taking longer than usual?

Your iPhone or iPad is running older software. Updating may help: FilmLink supports iOS/iPadOS 16.4 and later. How to update your device.

Your Safari version is older than FilmLink supports (16.4 and later). Updating may help. How to update Safari.

You appear to be offline. Reconnect to the internet, then reload this page.

Loading has not finished. Check your connection, then try reloading this page.

Multiplayer Leagues Leaderboard Updates

Loading movie…

Turn movie knowledge into a game

Explore The Hero Who Couldn't Read's cast and crew, then connect two films in FilmLink's free daily movie game.

Play today's movie game Learn to play

Backdrop

The Hero Who Couldn't Read

The Hero Who Couldn't Read1984

60 minDramaTV MovieAdventure

Teacher discovers that the star basketball player is illiterate, and makes it his mission to teach him how to read.

Director

Robert Chenault

Writer

Johnny Dawkins Adoley Odunton

Stars

Clarence Williams III Lynn Hamilton Eric D. Wallace

Cast11

Clarence Williams III
as Mr. Simpson
Lynn Hamilton
as Mrs. Ellis
E
Eric D. Wallace
as Freddie Ellis
James Carroll Jordan
as Mike Chapman
Arthur Taxier
as Coach Jefferies
Renée Jones
as Cynthia Beale
I
Ira Angustain
as Ramone
S
Stan Foster
as Calvin Smith
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Michael Dorn
as Dr. Bennett
Cindy Herron
as Betty

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

More like this

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Cheaters

My Dinner with Hervé

My Dinner with Hervé

Ray Donovan: The Movie

Ray Donovan: The Movie

American Son

Double Teamed!

Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery

Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery

Iron Jawed Angels

Iron Jawed Angels

The Christmas Shoes

The Christmas Shoes

TalhotBlond

Heaven

Garage Sale Mystery: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Garage Sale Mystery: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday

Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

Hello Sister, Goodbye Life

Hello Sister, Goodbye Life

Normal

Meltdown: Days of Destruction

Meltdown: Days of Destruction

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors