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Class of 1984
Why this pick
A harsher, exploitation-tinged predecessor centered on a teacher facing an entrenched school gang, with the same escalating confrontations and tense institutional breakdown.
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MOVIE1987 1h 49m USA
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The Substitute
Why this pick
Channels the same forceful outsider-versus-violent-school dynamic, as a temporary teacher confronts gangs and corruption through brisk, confrontational action.
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187
Why this pick
A grim, street-level teacher thriller driven by an educator pushed beyond ordinary disciplinary limits by intimidation and violence at school.
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Lean On Me
Why this pick
Shares the determined new-principal premise and high-pressure urban-school setting, but trades pulp action for an equally combative campaign to reclaim a failing institution.
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Only the Strong
Why this pick
An action-forward school-reform story in which a returned teacher uses unconventional discipline to challenge gang influence and give alienated students another path.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Louis Gossett Jr.
Jake Phillips
Rae Dawn Chong
Hilary Orozco
Jim Belushi
Rick Latimer
Kelly Jo Minter
Treena Lester
Michael Wright
Victor Duncan
Reggie Johnson
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