One Eight Seven

One Eight Seven (1997)

Timing: 1:59 (119 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1997-07-29

Country

United States

Production

Icon Productions

Genre

Drama, Thriller

Budget

$2 147 483 647

Revenue

$5 716 080

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Director

Kevin Reynolds

Actors

Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Collins Jr., Tony Plana, Karina Arroyave, Lobo Sebastian, Jack Kehler, Jonah Rooney, Demetrius Navarro
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Scenario

Producer

Bruce Davey, Stephen McEveety, Mel Gibson

Operator

Ericson Core

Composer

Artist

Audition

Marion Dougherty

Editing

Stephen Semel
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• 187 is the code denoting murder in the California Penal Code.
• The original screenplay was written in 1995 by Scott Yagemann, who himself worked as a substitute teacher in Los Angeles for seven years. He wrote the script after a student he had transferred to his school began threatening Yagemann and his family. Yagemann reported the threats to the authorities, and the student was taken into custody. Approximately a week later, he was called as a witness to court, where the same student was being tried for a knife attack on a teacher committed a year earlier. Yagemann was angered because he had not been told about such details of the student's biography before, and he wrote this screenplay. According to him, 90% of the film's material is based on events that actually happened to him personally and to other teachers.