

After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher.
Acting
Jackson's restrained simmer before the inevitable explosion
Direction
Reynolds makes LA feel like a pressure cooker with no release valve
Writing
The title itself: California penal code for murder

Director
Kevin Reynolds
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the '90s 'dangerous classroom' panic, it bombed because audiences wanted Dead Poets Society catharsis, not this nihilism.
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