DramaThriller

One Eight Seven

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

After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.

Release Date : 1997-07-29

Language :EnglishSpanish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Icon Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles : 187

Cast

Character Name : Trevor Garfield

Original Name : Samuel L. Jackson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dave Childress

Original Name : John Heard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ellen Henry

Original Name : Kelly Rowan

Gender : Female

Character Name : Cesar Sanchez

Original Name : Clifton Collins Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Principal Garcia

Original Name : Tony Plana

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rita Martinez

Original Name : Karina Arroyave

Gender : Female

Character Name : Benny Chacon

Original Name : Lobo Sebastian

Gender : Male

Character Name : Larry Hyland

Original Name : Jack Kehler

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stevie Littleton

Original Name : Jonah Rooney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Paco

Original Name : Demetrius Navarro

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lakesia

Original Name : Ebony Monique Solomon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Barsek

Original Name : Jonny Bogris

Gender : Male

Character Name : Victor

Original Name : Dominic Hoffman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Chacon

Original Name : Martha Velez

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dennis Broadway

Original Name : Method Man

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anglo Woman

Original Name : Kathryn Leigh Scott

Gender : Female

Character Name : Teacher

Original Name : Sage Allen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Animal Regulation Officer

Original Name : Donal Gibson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Asian Girl

Original Name : Liza del Mundo

Gender : Female

Character Name : Assistant Coroner

Original Name : Vic Polizos

Gender : Male

Character Name : New York Assistant Principal

Original Name : Leonard L. Thomas

Gender : Male

Character Name : Augie

Original Name : Antwon Tanner

Gender : Male

Character Name : Iris

Original Name : Joanna Sanchez

Gender : Female

Character Name : Walter

Original Name : Richard Riehle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mrs. Ford

Original Name : Esther Scott

Gender : Female

Character Name : Librarian

Original Name : Harri James

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mrs. Santana

Original Name : Esther Mercado

Gender : Female

Character Name : Straggling Student

Original Name : Chase A. Garland

Gender : Male

Character Name : Voice in Crowd

Original Name : Guy Torry

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2022-07-08

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 in authority. Except, maybe, "Rita" (Karina Arroyave) who wants to succeed despite the pressures from her peers. From the outset, "Garfield" has a challenger in the young "Cesar" (Clifton Collins Jr) and most of the film is spent teeing up the ultimate denouement between the two men, in what is really a rather unfulfilling fashion. Kevin Reynolds provides us here with a pretty savage indictment of an education system that could hardly be more indifferent to the needs of it's staff or it's students. Indeed the state of the buildings, the safety of just about everyone and the attitudes of the students seems to be wrapped in a self-perpetuating film of neglect and fear of law suits. Jackson presents us with a measured performance, but his character is a bit sterile. The sub-plot with his fearful colleague "Ellen" (Kelly Rowan) tries to inject a little humanity, but even that cannot penetrate the otherwise dark, gloomy and bleak storyline that may well be based in truth (it was written by a schoolteacher) but makes for a curiously downbeat and unmemorable piece of drama.