The Substitute
He has a lesson to teach. And nobody's going to have a problem with it.The most dangerous thing about school used to be the students.
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After a botched mission in Cuba, professional mercenary Shale and his crew Joey Six, Hollan, Rem, and Wellman head home to Miami, Florida, where Shale is reunited with his fiance Jane Hetzko, who is a history teacher at Columbus High School in Miami. Some of Jane’s students happen to be members of a street gang known as the “Kings of Destruction” (KOD), led by Juan Lacas, who has been terrorizing Jane. After Jane’s kneecap is broken by a big seminole named Bull, she tells Shale that she believes Lacas ordered the attack, so Shale goes undercover as Jane’s substitute, and initially, Jane has no idea that Shale is doing this. At the school, Shale meets principal Claude Rolle, librarian Hannah Dillon, and english and drama teacher Darrell Sherman. It turns out that Lacas is one of Jane’s students. As Shale investigates the attack on Jane, he discovers that drugs are being circulated into the school. Shale even investigates local drug kingpin Johnny Glades, who may or may not have someone inside the school distributing the drugs for him. Lives are threatened as Shale investigates and sets out to clean up the crime infested school.
After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She’s now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go undercover as her substitute in high school. Very soon he finds out that gang named Kings of Destruction is terrorizing the school. Shale is going to give everything to stop them, even his own life.
Director
Robert Mandel
Writer
Roy Frumkes, Rocco Simonelli, Alan Ormsby
Producer
Steven Bakalar as executive producer , Devorah Cutler as executive producer , Juanita F. Diana as co-producer , Morrie Eisenman as producer , Michael Feeney as co-producer , Lou Fusaro as co-producer , Thomas A. Irvine as associate producer , Jim Steele as producer , Don Carmody as producer (uncredited)
Casting
Tom Berenger as Jonathan Shale, Raymond Cruz as Joey Six, William Forsythe as Hollan, Luis Guzm




