One Eight Seven

IMDb 6.7 1997 • 119 min • DramaThriller

Director

Kevin Reynolds

Country

US

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson Trevor
John Heard
John Heard Childress
Kelly Rowan
Kelly Rowan Ellen
Clifton Collins Jr.
Clifton Collins Jr. Cesar
Tony Plana
Tony Plana Garcia