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| 187 | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kevin Reynolds |
| Produced by | Bruce Davey Stephen McEveety |
| Written by | Scott Yagemann |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Ericson Core |
| Edited by | Stephen Semel |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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| 120 minutes | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $5.7 million |
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One Eight Seven (also known and abbreviated as 187) is a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Kevin Reynolds. It was the first top-billed starring role for Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. The film's name comes from the California Penal CodeSection 187, which defines murder.
The original screenplay was written in 1995 by Scott Yagemann, a Los Angeles area high school substitute teacher with seven years of tenure. He wrote the screenplay after an incident when a violent transfer student had threatened to kill him and his family. Yagemann reported the threat to the authorities and the student was arrested. About a week later, he was called by the district attorney to testify against the student in a court of law, where the student was being prosecuted for stabbing a teacher's aide a year before. This annoyed Yagemann, who had not been told about it beforehand, and led to him writing the screenplay. He claimed that 90% of the film's material is based on incidents that had happened to him and other teachers in real life.[1][2]
Plot[edit]
Trevor Garfield (Samuel L. Jackson) is an African American high school science teacher at Roosevelt Whitney High School, a high school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Dennis Broadway (Method Man), a gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade threatens to murder him, writing the number 187 (the California police code for homicide) on every page in a textbook. Garfield knows that this is a warning and tries to report the administration, Garfield knows that Dennis just wanted to transfer back to his old school and he needed to have good grades. The administration ignored this warning and Dennis ambushes Garfield in the hallway, stabbing him in the back and side abdominal area multiple times with a shiv.
Fifteen months after surviving, Garfield, now a substitute teacher, has relocated to John Quincy Adams High School in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, but trouble starts again when he substitutes an unruly class of rejects, including a Chicanotag crew by the name of 'Kappin' Off Suckers' (K.O.S.). Their leader, Benito 'Benny' Chacón (Lobo Sebastian), a felon attending high school as a condition of probation, makes it clear to Garfield that there will be no mutual respect.
The tension mounts when a fellow teacher, Ellen Henry (Kelly Rowan), confides that Benny has threatened her life, an action against which the administration of the school refuses to take action, fearing legal threats. After Benny murders a rival tagger in cold blood, he disappears, and Benny's unstable tag partner, César Sanchez (Clifton Collins Jr.), takes over as leader. When César steals Garfield's family heirloom watch, the principal is more concerned about a lawsuit and refuses to take action. Ellen and Garfield develop a close friendship that approaches the beginnings of a relationship, but is stymied by Garfield's destabilizing behavior and his confrontations with the K.O.S.. Garfield's past garners the unwanted admiration of Dave Childress (John Heard), an alcoholic history teacher who carries guns at the school.
The conflict between Garfield and the K.O.S. escalates with the killing of Jack, Ellen's dog. César, after spraying cartoon graffiti depicting a dead dog, is shot with a syringe filled with morphine attached to the end of an arrow. He passes out, and wakes up to find one of his fingers cut off. César recovers the finger and it is reattached, with the letters 'R U DUN' ('are you done?') tattooed as a warning.
A student Garfield has tutored, Rita Martínez (Karina Arroyave), a Chicana, faces abuse from both the K.O.S. and Childress, and drops out. The school administration is mired in bureaucracy and unable to intervene. After Benny is found dead in the Los Angeles River, apparently of a drug overdose, it is revealed that Garfield took matters into his own hands, killing Benny and severing César's finger. Garfield lets Ellen leave as she disavows his actions.
The K.O.S. plan to murder Garfield. At Garfield's house, the gang forces Garfield into a contest of Russian roulette with César. The latter's resolve is shaken as Garfield talks about the lost-cause lifestyle he has led. Hesitating at his turn, César watches as Garfield, offering to take his turn for him, takes the revolver and shoots himself in the head. Driven by his sense of honor and ignoring the protests of his horrified friends, César insists on taking his rightful turn and ends up killing himself .
On graduation day, Rita, who completes her studies along with former K.O.S. member Stevie Littleton (Jonah Rooney), offers a tribute to Garfield by reading an essay about him. The essay incorporates the theme of the Pyrrhic victory and Ellen leaves the school.
Cast[edit]
- Samuel L. Jackson as Trevor Garfield
- John Heard as Dave Childress
- Kelly Rowan as Ellen Henry
- Clifton Collins Jr. as César Sánchez
- Tony Plana as Principal García
- Karina Arroyave as Rita Martínez
- Demetrius Navarro as Paco
- Lobo Sebastian as Benny Chacón
- Jack Kehler as Larry Hyland
- Jonah Rooney as Stevie Littleton
- Method Man as Dennis Broadway
- Kathryn Leigh Scott as Anglo Woman
Reception[edit]
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 30% based on reviews from 27 critics.[3]
Roger Ebert rated the film 2 out of 4 stars, complimenting the 'strong and sympathetic performance' by Samuel L. Jackson and saying that the movie 'has elements that are thoughtful and tough about inner-city schools' but it also contains 'elements that belong in a crime thriller or a war movie'. He also felt that the movie's 'destination doesn't have much to do with how it got there'.[4]
The film grossed $5.7 million domestically in its theatrical release.[5]
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Soundtrack[edit]
| Music from the Motion Picture 187 | |
|---|---|
| Soundtrack album by | |
| Released | July 29, 1997 |
| Recorded | 1997 |
| Genre | Hip hop, electronica, trip hop |
| Label | Atlantics |
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [6] |
The film's soundtrack was released under the title Music from the Motion Picture 187 on July 29, 1997 through Atlantic Records. Unlike films like Dangerous Minds and The Substitute that dealt with similar subject matter, this soundtrack did not receive an urban music soundtrack. Instead the soundtrack was made up of trip hop, a combination of hip hop and electronica.
- Track listing
| No. | Title | Performing artist | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'Slack Hands' | Galliano | 4:46 |
| 2. | 'Spying Glass' | Massive Attack | 5:20 |
| 3. | 'Release Yo' Delf (Prodigy Remix)' | Method Man | 4:54 |
| 4. | 'Stem' | DJ Shadow | 3:25 |
| 5. | 'Flipside' | Everything But the Girl | 4:30 |
| 6. | 'Karmacoma' | Massive Attack | 5:21 |
| 7. | 'In November' | Dave Darling | 4:28 |
| 8. | 'Neither Sing Sing nor Baden Baden' | Bang Bang | 5:57 |
| 9. | 'Raincry' | God Within | 5:40 |
| 10. | 'Pregao' | Madredeus | 4:03 |
| 11. | 'The Wilderness' | V Love | 5:16 |
| 12. | 'Mankind, Pt. 2' | Jalal Mansur Nuriddin | 5:02 |
References[edit]
- ^Yagemann, Scott (1997-08-04). '90% of '187' Is Based on Schoolteachers' Reality'. Los Angeles Times. ISSN0458-3035. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
- ^Weeks, Janet (1997-07-30). 'Screenwriter: `187' Brutal - And All Too Real'. Sun-Sentinel. Archived from the original on September 12, 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
- ^'One Eight Seven'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^Ebert, Roger (July 30, 1997). 'One Eight Seven'. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^'One Eight Seven'. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^https://www.allmusic.com/album/r308768
Further reading[edit]
- Bernstein, Nell. 'little monsters.' at the Wayback Machine (archived August 18, 2000)(Archive, Alternate URL at the Wayback Machine (archived January 28, 1999), Archive) Salon.com. August 6, 1997. - Review of the film
- Fassett, Deanna L.; Warren, John T. 'A Teacher Wrote This Movie': Challenging the Myths of 'One Eight Seven' [movie review]. Multicultural Education, v7 n1 p30-33 Fall 1999. ISSN ISSN1068-3844. ERIC Number: EJ594392 - Information at ERIC
External links[edit]
Samuel L Jackson Roulette Russe Lyrics
- 187 Website at the Wayback Machine (archived February 3, 1998)
- One Eight Seven on IMDb
- One Eight Seven at Box Office Mojo
- One Eight Seven at Rotten Tomatoes