One Eight Seven

Name: One Eight Seven
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: July 30, 1997
Duration: 119 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Clifton Collins Jr., Demetrius Navarro, Jack Kehler, John Heard, Jonah Rooney

1997

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Bac Films | Release Date: July 30, 1997 | R

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

Summary: 15 months after being stabbed 9 times by a student at work as a high school teacher in NYC, Mr. Garfield is working in LA as a substitute teacher come full-time. He refuses to be a victim anymore.

Director: Kevin Reynolds

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 119 min

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Janet Maslin

Genuinely disturbing in its vision of fearless students and powerless teachers locked in struggle. Read full review

James Berardinelli

187 offers some thought-provoking ideas and several effective performances, but the script ultimately lets down both the actors and the audience members who are watching them. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Though positioned as a glum expose of America's violent schools (a cause for hand-wringing at least as far back as 1955's The Blackboard Jungle), the story is overwhelmed by the throbbing score, music-video aesthetic (New York scenes are shot in cold blues and grays, while the L.A. sequences are a hazy, burnt-out yellow) and the exotic, colorful psychos who rule Garfield's classroom: It's a New York Times editorial by way of CLASS OF 1984. Read full review

Roger Ebert

At the end, I know, Trevor has come unhinged. I accept that and believe it. But it feels like the movie lost the nerve of its original story impulse and sought safety in elements borrowed from thrillers. Its destination doesn't have much to do with how it got there. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The prospect of a teacher driven to his students’ level of sociopathic vengeance might have packed a ghoulish wallop had the film viewed it as tragic. Reynolds, however, is just grinding out exploitation thrills. Read full review

Peter Travers

A ham-handed melodrama that trivializes an important topic: the role of the teacher in a violent classroom. Read full review

Deborah Peterson

By the time the movie's ugly conclusion is reached, we are so numbed by the mindless degradation of it all that we couldn't care less who wins. We know we didn't. [01 Aug 1997, p.03E]

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exexfear

Dec 4, 2021

Very very good movie probably one of the best movies of its time Mr.Jacksons performance in this movie is unlike anything I have ever seen

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Aug 11, 2023

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LatinCritic13

Mar 16, 2022

This is by far one of the very underrated hood dramas ever shaded by Hollywood. And the Oscar worthy performance by Samuel L. Jackson with the talented Clifton Collins Jr. shows it all in this depressing 90s East LA drama. Even though the movie's been written by an actual teacher, the scriptThis is by far one of the very underrated hood dramas ever shaded by Hollywood. And the Oscar worthy performance by Samuel L. Jackson with the talented Clifton Collins Jr. shows it all in this depressing 90s East LA drama. Even though the movie's been written by an actual teacher, the script can be janky all around but still holds up quite nicely in film history showing the dark side of high school back in the 90s. No wonder why Rockstar Games thought of Samuel L. Jackson and Clifton Collins Jr. to reprise their personas for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.… Expand

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