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| Orion Pictures | Release Date: April 19, 1996 |
Starring:
Ana Azcuy, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Luis Guzmán, Raymond Cruz, Richard Brooks, Shar-Ron Corley, Tom Berenger, Vincent Laresca, William Forsythe
Summary:
After a teacher is attacked by drug-dealing students, her boyfriend, a professional mercenary, steps into her job at a rough Miami high school.
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The Substitute is loud, dumb and sort of fun, but it'll be best viewed on your neighbor's cable TV, so you don't have to pay the bill. [19 Apr 1996, p.2B]
Long before the final battle, the movie runs out of steam. At two hours, it's just too long. But taken as a guilty pleasure, it's tolerable. [19 Apr 1996]
It's a crudely entertaining argument for redeploying the U.S. military into our schools. [19 Apr 1996, p.05]
In director Mandel's unsophisticated hands, this all comes over like an amusingly preposterous mix of Kindergarten Cop and Dangerous Minds. But the script, by at least three writers, doesn't have the dialogue, characterisations, plotting, or plain interest to sustain a school-based drama.
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Exploitation fans will be disappointed to see that Roy Frumkes, who wrote the incredible cult favorite Street Trash and directed the excellent documentary Document of the Dead, and Alan Ormsby, who collaborated with Bob Clark on his forgotten classics Deathdream, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, and Deranged, were partly responsible for The Substitute's abysmal screenplay.
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