Icon Productions
Warner Bros. Pictures
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One Eight Seven
When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?
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 three Indigenous Latino American males and one European-American male claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.
- Original title
- One Eight Seven
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $20,000,000
- Revenue
- $5,716,080
CinemaSerf
Jul 8, 2022 · via TMDB
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) and most of the film is spent teeing up the ultimate denouement between the two men, in what is really a rather unfulfilling fashion. Kevin Reynolds provides us here with a pretty savage indictment of an education system that could hardly be more indifferent to the needs of it's staff or it's students. Indeed the state of the buildings, the safety of just about everyone and the attitudes of the students seems to be wrapped in a self-perpetuating film of neglect and fear of law suits. Jackson presents us with a measured performance, but his character is a bit sterile. The sub-plot with his fearful colleague "Ellen" (Kelly Rowan) tries to inject a little humanity, but even that cannot penetrate the otherwise dark, gloomy and bleak storyline that may well be based in truth (it was written by a schoolteacher) but makes for a curiously downbeat and unmemorable piece of drama.
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Samuel L. Jackson
Trevor
John Heard
Childress
Kelly Rowan
Ellen
Clifton Collins Jr.
Cesar
Tony Plana
Garcia
Karina Arroyave
Rita
Lobo Sebastian
Benny
Jack Kehler
Hyland
Demetrius Navarro
Paco
Ebony Monique Solomon
Lakesia
Dominic Hoffman
Victor
Martha Velez
Mrs. Chacon
Method Man
Dennis Broadway
Sage Allen
Teacher
Kathryn Leigh Scott
Anglo Woman
Donal Gibson
Animal Regulation Officer
Liza del Mundo
Asian Girl
Vic Polizos
Assistant Coroner
Leonard L. Thomas
New York Assistant Principal
Antwon Tanner
Augie
Joanna Sanchez
Iris
Richard Riehle
Walter
Esther Scott
Mrs. Ford
Guy Torry
Voice in Crowd (voice)
Jami Philbrick
Student (uncredited)
Kenya D. Williamson
Cashier (uncredited)
Barry Idoine
Additional First Assistant Camera
Ericson Core
Director of Photography
JoAnn Fregalette Jansen
Choreographer
Kevin L. Jackson
Stunts
Kevin Reynolds
Director
Caitlin McKenna
ADR Voice Casting
Terri Douglas
ADR Voice Casting
Marion Dougherty
Casting
Mel Gibson
Executive Producer
Stephen McEveety
Producer
Cristen Carr Strubbe
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Jim Lemley
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Gary A. Hecker
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Chris Douridas
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R.J. Kizer
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