Watch One Eight Seven (1997) Free Online

Release Date: 1997

Cast: Antwon Tanner, Tony Plana, Clifton Collins, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Kelly Rowan, John Heard

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Thriller

One Eight Seven (also known and abbreviated as 187) is a 1997 drama / crime / thriller film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and its name comes from the California Penal Code number, called 187. Trevor Garfield is an African American high school science teacher at Roosevelt Whitney High School, a high school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. A gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade threatens to murder him, writing the number 187 (the police... MORE

One Eight Seven (also known and abbreviated as 187) is a 1997 drama / crime / thriller film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and its name comes from the California Penal Code number, called 187. Trevor Garfield is an African American high school science teacher at Roosevelt Whitney High School, a high school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. A gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade threatens to murder him, writing the number 187 (the police code for homicide) on every page of one of Garfield's textbooks. The administration ignores the threat, and the thug ambushes Garfield in the hallway, stabbing him in the back and side abdominal area multiple times with a shiv. Fifteen months after surviving from the ordeal, Garfield, now a substitute teacher, has relocated to John Quincy Adams High School in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, but the trouble starts again when he becomes a substitute to a rowdy, unruly class of rejects, including a Chicano tag crew by the name of "Kappin' Off Suckers" (K.O.S.). Their leader, Benito LESS