One Eight Seven

1997

DramaThriller

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.

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

Rating

6.647
581 votes

Popularity

4.2283

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

Icon Productions

Runtime

119 min.

Budget (M$)

5.7 / 20ROI 29%

Status

Released

Release: 7/29/1997

Credits

One Eight Seven

Kevin ReynoldsDirector

One Eight Seven

Samuel L. JacksonTrevor Garfield

One Eight Seven

John HeardDave Childress

One Eight Seven

Kelly RowanEllen Henry

One Eight Seven

Clifton Collins Jr.Cesar Sanchez

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

7/8/2022

6 / 10

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.

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