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A Balasaur Score of 54 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 31%, Metacritic 41/100. Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,941 1990s drama movies in this catalog score higher. Streaming on Prime and Tubi.
Synopsis
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 three Indigenous Latino American males and one European-American male claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 25 points higher than critics do.
668 audience votes
Key crew
- Kevin ReynoldsDirector
- Scott YagemannScreenplay
Cast
- Samuel L. JacksonTrevor
- John HeardChildress
- Kelly RowanEllen
- Clifton Collins Jr.Cesar
- Tony PlanaGarcia
- Karina ArroyaveRita
- Lobo SebastianBenny
- Jack KehlerHyland
- Jonah RooneyStevie
- Demetrius NavarroPaco
- Ebony Monique SolomonLakesia
- Jonny BogrisBarsek
