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 Garfield

John Heard

Dave Childress

Kelly Rowan

Ellen Henry

Clifton Collins Jr.

Cesar Sanchez

Tony Plana

Principal Garcia

Karina Arroyave

Rita Martinez

Lobo Sebastian

Benny Chacon

Jack Kehler

Larry Hyland

Demetrius Navarro

Paco

Ebony Monique Solomon

Lakesia

Dominic Hoffman

Victor

Martha Velez

Mrs. Chacon