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7.0When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.
Released: 1996-04-19114 minDir: Robert MandelAction, Crime, Drama, ThrillerBox office: $14.8MPart of: The Substitute Collection
Cast
- Tom Berenger as Jonathan Shale
- Raymond Cruz as Joey Six
- Marc Anthony as Juan Lacas
- William Forsythe as Hollan
- Luis Guzmán as Rem
- Diane Venora as Jane Hetzko
Themes
- mercenary
- gang
- drug
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Ratings
IMDb
6.1/10
17,913 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
42%
Metacritic
41/100
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rated
- R
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- thriller film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Robert Mandel
- Cast member
- Rodney A. Grant
- Composer
- Gary Chang
- Production company
- Orion Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Bruce Surtees
- Narrative location
- Miami
- Filming location
- Miami
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 246301
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1996-04-19
- title
- The Substitute
- distributed by
- Netflix
- costume designer
- Patricia Field
- review score
- 41/100
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- box office
- 14818176
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