After an upbringing marked by struggles with Tourette's syndrome, cum laude graduate Brad Cohen (James Wolk) wanted to be the kind of elementary school teacher that he himself never had... then faced two dozen rejections before an Atlanta-area school took him on. The hurdles he faced in gaining his students' admiration-and national recognition as an educator-are movingly chronicled in this drama taken from Cohen's memoir; Treat Williams, Patricia Heaton, Sarah Drew, Kathleen York co-star.