Logline
A group of bottom-ranked, prickly students, an atypical PE teacher, two kinds of "misfit" exterior, and a warm, uplifting story of youth at school.
At Ease, Attention, Eyes Front
Creative Statement
This is a salute to youth, and a look back at growing up. As adults, when we face countless moments of hesitation and timidity, the best response is the movement we repeated openly countless times in our youth: take one more step forward.
Synopsis
Class 8 of Year 11 at Lucheng No. 1 High School has the lowest overall grades and faces being broken up. At first the students do not care, but after some "persuasion" from study monitor Liu Benben, they decide to make a fight of it and aim for second-to-last place in the points ranking. Then another piece of news hits like a bolt from the blue: at this critical moment the class gets a new head teacher, and he turns out to be Li Mao, a PE teacher who seems "unreliable". After a battle of wits with Li Mao, the students of Class 8 finally reach an unprecedented consensus on one goal: "first place at the sports meet". So, led by Li Mao, a group of "bottom-ranked kids" sets off on a "mission impossible". Just as they pull out all the stops and win first place in the sports meet points, the students of Class 8 learn that the class will be broken up no matter what...
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Genre:
Coming-of-age, Inspirational -
Director:
Zhou Nanshen
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Screenwriter:
Jing Xingzi -
Producer:
Qin Panbo