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One Eight Seven

1997 · 119 min

Drama, Thriller

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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Appeals to viewers drawn to grim, socially charged dramas about institutional breakdown, wounded authority figures, and escalating conflicts in volatile schools.

Tone
bleak, tense, melancholic
Payoff
catharsis, unease
Pacing
steady
Intensity
intense
Structure
linear
Themes
institutional failure, school violence, trauma, authority, revenge
Setting
contemporary, underfunded urban high schools in New York and California

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