When a Brooklyn high school student writes the police code for homicide, 187, inside a textbook owned by teacher Trevor Garfield, Garfield feels threatened. The principal dismisses the incident, but the same student stabs Trevor soon after. Fifteen months later, a physically and emotionally scarred Trevor relocates to California and takes up substitute teaching. To his dismay, his new school is as full of dangerously undisciplined students as his old one—including four Latin Americans and a European American claiming membership in tagging gang K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers)—driving him over the edge.

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Cast

Samuel L. Jackson

Trevor

John Heard

Childress

Kelly Rowan

Ellen

Clifton Collins Jr.

Cesar

Tony Plana

Garcia

Karina Arroyave

Rita

Lobo Sebastian

Benny

Jack Kehler

Hyland

Demetrius Navarro

Paco

Ebony Monique Solomon

Lakesia

Dominic Hoffman

Victor

Martha Velez

Mrs. Chacon