A vicious hgh school student is dead. A gang hit? An act of sudden rage? Or did a once-idealistic teacher finally snap? the issues and the tension hit home when Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, A Time to Kill) stars in 187, a gritty urban-school thriller directed by Kevin Reynolds (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves).In one of his most powerful roles, Jackson plays dedicated science instructor Trevor Garfield, a man with a passion for learning. Garfield is skilled, smart, committed, the total package as a teacher. But he's also human. And what he confronts in a school turned increasingly into a battlefield may be fore than the can bear. How Trevor copes makes 187 "gripping, high-octane entertainment" (Newhouse News Service).