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One Eight Seven is a american film of genre Drama directed by Kevin Reynolds released in USA on 29 july 1997 with Samuel L. Jackson
One Eight Seven (1997)
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Add to a movie listOne Eight Seven (also known and abbreviated as 187) is a 1997 drama/crime/thriller film directed by Kevin Reynolds. It was the first top-billed starring role for Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. The film's name comes from the California Penal Code Section 187.
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Trevor Garfield is an African American high school science teacher at Roosevelt Whitney High School, a high school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Dennis Broadway, a gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade threatens to murder him, writing the number 187 (the California police code for homicide used in many popular rap lyrics) on every page of one of Garfield's textbooks. The administration ignores the threat, and Dennis ambushes Garfield in the hallway, stabbing him in the back and side abdominal area multiple times with a shiv.Actors
Samuel L. Jackson
(Trevor Garfield)
John Heard
(Dave Childress)
Kelly Rowan
(Ellen Henry)
Clifton Collins, Jr.
(Cesar Sanchez)
Tony Plana
(Principal Garcia)
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