One Eight Seven (1997)

MOVIE

19971h 59m6.7

Drama, Thriller

TMDB6.7

Votes674

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Runtime: 1h 59m
Genre: Drama
Certificate: R
Budget: $20,000,000
Revenue: $5,716,080
Origin: United States of America

About

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

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.