One Eight Seven(187)

Director:

Kevin Reynolds

Writer:

Scott Yagemann

Stars:

Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard and Kelly Rowan

One Eight Seven (also known and abbreviated as 187) is a 1997 drama / crime / thriller film, starring Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a Los Angeles teacher caught with gang trouble in an urban high school. The film was directed by Kevin Reynolds and its name comes from the California Penal Code number, called 187 (murder).

High school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.