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Directed by Kevin Reynolds, from a screenplay by Scott Yagemann, One Eight Seven goes into limited release in selected markets. 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-ruled school in Los Angeles. A powerful addition to a sub-genre stretching back to Brooks' Blackboaord Jungle, anchored by Jackson's intense performance, alongside John Heard and the menacing Clifton Collins Jr. The title 187 is the California police code for homicide.
