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- 1996
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
- 1996
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
Summary After a teacher is attacked by drug-dealing students, her boyfriend, a professional mercenary, steps into her job at a rough Miami high school.
Directed By: Robert Mandel
Written By: Roy Frumkes, Rocco Simonelli, Alan Ormsby
- 1996
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
- 1996
- R
- Orion Pictures
- 1 h 54 m
The Substitute
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Summary After a teacher is attacked by drug-dealing students, her boyfriend, a professional mercenary, steps into her job at a rough Miami high school.
Directed By: Robert Mandel
Written By: Roy Frumkes, Rocco Simonelli, Alan Ormsby
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Metascore
Mixed or average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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32% Positive
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6 Reviews
42% Mixed
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26% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
41
32% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
42% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
26% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
It's a supremely goofy movie, and one that's almost hypnotically heedless of everything that is currently fashionable in Hollywood, especially in the inspirational teacher genre. You won't be inspired. On the other hand, you won't be bored. [19 Apr 1996, p.42]
Though the setup is largely preposterous, the filmmakers go whole-hog for the idea and provide a kinetic entertainment.
There's a certain trashy fun to this combination of "Blackboard Jungle," "The Principal," "Dangerous Minds" and the old "Miami Vice" TV series.
It's a crudely entertaining argument for redeploying the U.S. military into our schools. [19 Apr 1996, p.05]
In director Mandel's unsophisticated hands, this all comes over like an amusingly preposterous mix of Kindergarten Cop and Dangerous Minds. But the script, by at least three writers, doesn't have the dialogue, characterisations, plotting, or plain interest to sustain a school-based drama.
I am so very tired of this movie. I see it at least once a month. 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.
Exploitation fans will be disappointed to see that Roy Frumkes, who wrote the incredible cult favorite Street Trash and directed the excellent documentary Document of the Dead, and Alan Ormsby, who collaborated with Bob Clark on his forgotten classics Deathdream, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, and Deranged, were partly responsible for The Substitute's abysmal screenplay.
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