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67% Critic Match
One Eight Seven
“When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?”
6.7 / 10• 1997• 1h 59m•R• English
DramaThriller
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Samuel L. Jackson
Trevor
Lead
John Heard
Childress
Kelly Rowan
Ellen
Clifton Collins Jr.
Cesar
Tony Plana
Garcia
Karina Arroyave
Rita
Lobo Sebastian
Benny
Jack Kehler
Hyland
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Kevin Reynolds's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. One Eight Seven is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
