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Perry once said in an interview that he hoped people would remember him as someone who helped others. He did, in ways large and small. But for one film, he played a man who helped children see themselves as worthy of a future. That’s a lesson worth grading on a curve.

is available for digital rental and purchase. It remains one of Matthew Perry’s finest, most human performances.

In The Ron Clark Story , Perry took on the real-life role of Ron Clark, a small-town teacher from North Carolina who moves to Harlem to take on the most difficult students in the city. It’s a part that could have been a cliché—the white savior with a clipboard and a dream. But Perry refused to let it be that simple.

For a generation of television viewers, Matthew Perry will always be Chandler Bing—the sarcastic, commitment-phobic king of the one-liner. His timing was immaculate, his delivery iconic. But in 2006, Perry did something unexpected. He swapped the coffee shop couch for a classroom chalkboard, traded his ironic smirk for a look of exhausted determination, and delivered a performance that proved he was never just the funny one.