
The Substitute
1996 · Movie · R · 114 min · ★ 7.0
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.
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Details
- Years
- 1996
- Release date
- 1996-04-19
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (571 votes)
- Box office
- $14,818,176
Themes
- mercenary
- gang
- drug
Cast & crew

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
Directed by Robert Mandel