Movie
The Substitute
Overview
When 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.
Details
- Release date
- 1996-04-19
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Live Entertainment
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Ernie Hudson as Claude Rolle
- Richard Brooks as Wellman
- Glenn Plummer as Darrell Sherman
- Cliff DeYoung as Matt Wolfson
- Peggy Pope as Hannah Dillon
- Willis Sparks as John Janus
Crew
- Robert Mandel - Director
- Roy Frumkes - Writer
- Rocco Simonelli - Writer
- Alan Ormsby - Writer
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