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.

Samuel L. Jackson
as Trevor

John Heard
as Childress

Kelly Rowan
as Ellen

Clifton Collins Jr.
as Cesar

Tony Plana
as Garcia

Karina Arroyave
as Rita

Lobo Sebastian
as Benny

Jack Kehler
as Hyland

Jonah Rooney
as Stevie

Demetrius Navarro
as Paco
CinemaSerf
This 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 moves to another in Los Angeles. The teenage kids ...