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The Substitute

Name: The Substitute
Director: Robert Mandel
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 1996-04-19
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Tom Berenger, Raymond Cruz, Marc Anthony, William Forsythe, Luis Guzmán

1996 · 1h 54m · Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

IMDb 6.1 Metacritic 41 RT 42%

Skip it. This 1996 action flick has a fun premise—mercenary teacher takedown—but the critics agree it's a clunky execution with formulaic plotting and painfully dated action sequences. Your time is better spent on literally any other '90s action movie that actually landed.

Plot

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.

Director: Robert Mandel

Cast: Tom Berenger, Raymond Cruz, Marc Anthony, William Forsythe, Luis Guzmán

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