One Eight Seven

Name: One Eight Seven
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1997-07-29
Duration: 1 h 59 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins Jr., Tony Plana

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

One Eight Seven (1997)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Release date

1997-07-29

Country

United States

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Icon Productions

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

$20 000 000

Box office

$5 716 080

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Director

Kevin Reynolds

Actors

Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins Jr., Tony Plana, Karina Arroyave, Lobo Sebastian, Jack Kehler, Jonah Rooney, Demetrius Navarro
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Scenario

Producer

Bruce Davey, Stephen McEveety, Mel Gibson, David Harfield

Camera operator

Ericson Core

Composer

Artist

Stephen Storer

Audition

Marion Dougherty

Editing

Stephen Semel, Cristen Carr Strubbe
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

187 is the code denoting murder in the California Penal Code.
The original screenplay was written in 1995 by Scott Yagemann, who himself worked as a substitute teacher in Los Angeles for seven years. He wrote the script after a student he had transferred to his school began threatening Yagemann and his family. Yagemann reported the threats to the authorities, and the student was taken into custody. Approximately a week later, he was called as a witness to court, where the same student was being tried for a knife attack on a teacher committed a year earlier. Yagemann was angered because he had not been told about such details of the student's biography before, and he wrote this screenplay. According to him, 90% of the film's material is based on events that actually happened to him personally and to other teachers.