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ONE EIGHT SEVEN gets limited opening. Directed by Kevin Reynolds, from a screenplay by Scott Yagemann, Samuel L. Jackson stars as an emotionally and physically scarred high school science teacher who, fifteen months after surviving a knife attack at a gang-infested Brooklyn school, finds himself on even more dangerous ground when he takes up a substitute teacher position at a similarly gang-infested school in Los Angeles. A powerful addition to a sub-genre stretching back to Brooks' Blackboaord Jungle, anchored by Jackson's intense performance.With John Heard and the menacing Clifton Collins Jr. The title 187 is the California police code for homicide.
