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The Substitute

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Inner-city Miami schoolteacher Jane Hetzko gets her knee broken when she stands up to the school's gang leader, Juan Lacas. Her boyfriend, ex-marine John Shale, decides to go undercover as her substitute in high school.

Genre:

Action, Crime, Drama

Actors:

Tom Berenger, Raymond Cruz, William Forsythe, Luis Guzmán, Richard Brooks, Ana Azcuy, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Shar-Ron Corley, Vincent Laresca, Maurice Compte, ...»

Director:

Robert Mandel

Country:

United States

Release:

1996

IMDb:

6.0

Quality:

Duration:

114 min

KEYWORDS:

#Raymond Cruz #Robert Mandel #The Substitute #Tom Berenger #William Forsythe

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ACTORS OF "The Substitute"

Tom Berenger

31 May 1949, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Raymond Cruz

9 July 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA

William Forsythe

7 June 1955, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Luis Guzmán

28 August 1956, Cayey, Puerto Rico

Richard Brooks

9 December 1962, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Ana Azcuy

Diane Venora

10 August 1952, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Glenn Plummer

18 August 1961, Richmond, California, USA

Shar-Ron Corley

26 May 1973, Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Vincent Laresca

21 January 1974, New York City, New York, USA

Maurice Compte

Marc Anthony

16 September 1968, New York City, New York, USA

Ernie Hudson

17 December 1945, Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA

Beau Weaver

19 January 1952, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Cliff De Young

12 February 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA

Willis Sparks

Noelle Beck

14 December 1968, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

15 May 1929, Montclair, New Jersey, USA

9 March 1959, Nebraska, USA

7 January 1963, Barnesville, Ohio, USA

Robert Rusler

20 September 1965, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA

Claudio Sad

30 December 1975, San Miguel de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina

Frank Silva

20 April 1959, New Rochelle, New York, USA

Kurt James Stefka

DIRECTORS OF "The Substitute"

Robert Mandel

CREATORS OF "The Substitute"

Rocco Simonelli

Roy Frumkes

HEROES OF "The Substitute"

Jonathan Shale

Played by: Tom Berenger

Hollan

Played by: William Forsythe

Jane Hetzko

Played by: Diane Venora

Juan Lacas

Played by: Marc Anthony

Principal Claude Rolle

Played by: Ernie Hudson

CRITICS OF "The Substitute"

eFilmCritic.com

Mediocre action flick with an ex-marine teacher taking his gang-banging students to task. Don't bother.

March 21, 2003

Film.com

An angry, white, mercenary movie out to spill blood and beat its manly chest.

January 01, 2000

Cinema Crazed

Worth the time for its occasional nuggets of interesting action, and the performance by Berenger.

August 21, 2014

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New York Times

The entire setup is too garish to be credible.

January 01, 2000

About.com

Really fun movie. Twist on the "Dangerous Minds" scenario.

July 22, 2003

Fantastica Daily

What begins as watchable quickly degenerates into a no-brain action flick that produces a ton of derisive laughter.

October 09, 2005

Cinematter

A poorly written and barely acted, but crowd-pleasing revenge flick.

January 01, 2000

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Deseret News, Salt Lake City

The silliness of The Substitute escalates as the film progresses, so that by the end there have been plenty of laughs during 'serious' scenes.

January 01, 2000

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ReelViews

Aside from a lot of only moderately-satisfying violence, The Substitute comes across as rather lame.

January 01, 2000

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Los Angeles Times

There's a sense of shrewd observation throughout The Substitute that makes it come alive and seem quite a few cuts above such usual genre fare.

February 13, 2001

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Film.com

There's a certain amount of camp value to this over-the-top thriller, which might as well be called Rambo Goes to High School.

January 01, 2000

Chicago Sun-Times

The title changes, the actors change, and the superficial details of the story change, but it is always about exactly the same thing: heavily armed men shooting at one another.

January 01, 2000

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GALLERY OF "The Substitute"