One Eight Seven (1997)

07/29/1997 1h 59m

When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?

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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.

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Cast Ages at Release

Samuel L. Jackson

as Trevor

Born 12/21/1948, age

John Heard

as Childress

Born 03/07/1945

Died 07/21/2017, age

Kelly Rowan

as Ellen

Born 10/26/1965, age

Clifton Collins Jr.

as Cesar

Born 06/16/1970, age

Tony Plana

as Garcia

Born 04/19/1952, age

Jack Kehler

as Hyland

Born 05/22/1946

Died 05/07/2022, age

Method Man

as Dennis Broadway

Born 04/01/1971, age

Sage Allen

as Teacher

Born 07/18/1936

Died 02/19/2014, age

Vic Polizos

as Assistant Coroner

Born 08/12/1947, age

Antwon Tanner

as Augie

Born 04/14/1975, age

Richard Riehle

as Walter

Born 05/12/1948, age

Guy Torry

as Voice in Crowd (voice)

Born 01/05/1969, age