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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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
Jonah Rooney
Stevie
Demetrius Navarro
Paco
Director
Kevin Reynolds
Screenplay
Scott Yagemann
Tagline
"When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$5,716,080
Production
Icon Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures
CinemaSerf
July 8, 2022
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 ...
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