Drama Thriller

One Eight Seven (1997)

Name: One Eight Seven
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1997-07-29
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins Jr., Tony Plana

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

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1h 59m English Released

Director: Kevin Reynolds

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.