Taglines: The most dangerous thing about school used to be the students.
The Substitute movie storyline. After a failed mission in Cuba with three casualties, the mercenary Jonathan Shale and his team composed by Joey Six, Rem, Wellman and Hollan return to Miami. Meanwhile, the history teacher at the Columbus High School Jane Hetzko is threatened by the gangster Juan Lacas, who is the leader of the dangerous street gang Kings of Destruction. She reports the menace with her colleague Darrell Sherman to the Principal Claude Rolle, but he does not take any attitude.
When the scared Jane returns home, she meets he boyfriend Shale that was visiting her and they spend the night together. On the next morning, Shale has a meeting with the rogue lawyer Matt Wolfson that offers a job to protect a shipment of drugs but Shale declines the offer. When he returns to Jane’s apartment, he learns that she is jogging at the beach. He walks to meet her and save Jane from the attack of the strong punk Bull that breaks her kneecap and flees.
She asks him to invite a substitute to replace her and Shale adopts the alias James Smith to replace Jane. Soon he learns that Lacas and Rolle are associated to the drug lord Johnny Glades and using the school to store and distribute the drug in Miami. Shale summons his crew and decide to clean the school and eliminate the gangsters.
The Substitute is a 1996 American crime action thriller film directed by Robert Mandel and starring Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Marc Anthony, Cliff De Young, Sharron Corley, Richard Brooks, Raymond Cruz and Luis Guzmán.
The Substitute (1996)
Directed by: Robert Mandel
Starring: Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Glenn Plummer, Marc Anthony, Cliff De Young, Sharron Corley, Richard Brooks, Raymond Cruz, Luis Guzmán
Screenplay by: Roy Frumkes, Rocco Simonelli, Alan Ormsby
Production Design by: Ron Foreman
Cinematography by: Bruce Surtees
Film Editing by: Alex Mackie
Costume Design by: Patricia Field
Set Decoration by: Barbara Peterson-Malesci
Art Direction by: Richard Fojo
Music by: Gary Chang
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, language and brief nudity.
Distributed by: Orion Pictures
Release Date: April 19, 1996
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