Story Line
Brooklyn High school teacher Trevor Garfield is repeatedly stabbed by a student. Fifteen months later, moves to Los Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Indigenous Latin American area. His new school is full of dangerously, undisciplined four Indigenous Latino American students and one European-American student who are a part of a tagging gang called, K.O.S. (Kappin' Off Suckers).
“When schools become war zones and both sides start taking casualties, what then?”
Top 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
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Rating
6.7/ 10
Release Date
1997-07-29
Runtime
1h 59m
Genres
DramaThriller
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User Reviews (1)
CinemaSerf
6/10
•7/8/2022This features a strong effort from Samuel L. Jackson but is really quite a depressing film to watch. He is "Garfield" - a teacher who survived a vicious knife attack at his previous school in New York, but who is still determined to persevere and so ...