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29/07/1997 Drama, Thriller 1h 59m
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When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?

Overview

When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including four Latin Americans and a European American claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.

  1. Kevin Reynolds

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Samuel L. Jackson

    Trevor

  2. John Heard

    Childress

  3. Kelly Rowan

    Ellen

  4. Clifton Collins Jr.

    Cesar

  5. Tony Plana

    Garcia

  6. Karina Arroyave

    Rita

  7. Lobo Sebastian

    Benny

  8. Jack Kehler

    Hyland

  9. Jonah Rooney

    Stevie

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-07-08
This features a strong effort from Samuel L. Jackson but is really quite a depressing film to watch. He is "Garfield" - a teacher who survived a vicious knife attack at his previous school in New York, but who is still determined to persevere and so moves to another in Los Angeles. The teenage kids there are a pretty disparate bunch, not really interested in education and certainly not interested in authority. Except, maybe, "Rita" (Karina Arroyave) who wants to succeed despite the pressures from her peers. From the outset, "Garfield" has a challenger in the young "Cesar" (Clifton Collins Jr) ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$20,000,000.00

Revenue
$5,716,080.00

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