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.
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- Samuel L. JacksonTrevor
- John HeardChildress
- Kelly RowanEllen
- Clifton Collins Jr.Cesar
- Tony PlanaGarcia
- Karina ArroyaveRita
- Lobo SebastianBenny
- Jack KehlerHyland
- Jonah RooneyStevie
- Demetrius NavarroPaco
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- Kevin ReynoldsDirector
- Scott YagemannScreenplay
- Ericson CoreDirector of Photography
- Stephen SemelEditor
- Bruce DaveyProducer
- Stephen McEveetyProducer
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