Plot
After surviving a brutal attack (Instrument used was a board with nails in it) by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles.
Release Year: 1997
Rating: 6.5/10 (10,956 voted)
Director:
Kevin Reynolds
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan
Storyline High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson
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Trevor Garfield
John Heard
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Dave Childress
Kelly Rowan
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Ellen Henry
Clifton Collins Jr.
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Cesar Sanchez
(as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez)
Tony Plana
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Principal Garcia
Karina Arroyave
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Rita Martinez
Lobo Sebastian
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Benny Chacon
Jack Kehler
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Larry Hyland
Jonah Rooney
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Stevie Littleton
Demetrius Navarro
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Paco
Ebony Monique Solomon
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Lakesia
Johnny Bogris
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Barsek
(as Yannis Bogris)
Dominic Hoffman
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Victor
Martha Velez
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Mrs. Chacon
Method Man
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Dennis Broadway
Taglines:
When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?
Filming Locations: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Box Office Details
Budget: $20,000,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend: $2,912,400
(USA)
(3 August 1997)
(1121 Screens)
Gross: $5,716,080
(USA)
(7 September 1997)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
While riding his exercise bike, Garfield wears a Morehouse College sweatshirt - Samuel L. Jackson's alma mater.
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible:
Dolly tracks visible when the dead dog is taken away by the ambulance.
Quotes:
[first lines]
school official:
Alright, let's go people, let's go. One minute until tardy lock-down... take your hat off, thank you... let's go, let's go. Everybody move inside, move inside... morning Trevor, good morning. Let's go, get inside... let her go! No smoking - I don't smoke, you don't smoke. Let's go people, today's a *good* day to learn.
User Review
Interesting insights into boundaries, and what is going too far.
Rating: 7/10
Samuel L. Jackson is superb in this hard look at the pressure that American
Teachers can face. The story begins simply enough, but soon leads us into a
jungle of what is right and what is wrong. It encompasses the themes of
machismo, gangs, respect and the fallen and tainted profession of teaching.
Jackson plays the destroyed Teacher, whose life is torn apart after a
serious stabbing by one of his own pupils. It follows his fight to cling on
to the only thing he has left in his life, Teaching, but soon that too is
torn away from him. Watch for this amazing insight into the state of some
American schools and for the complex discussions of right, wrong and what it
takes to exact a change.
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