IFWT #62 - One Eight Seven (1997) [Ft. Newman from Movies 4 Dayz]

We may be fully grown and mature adults here at In Film We Trust, or so we’d like to believe, but this week we’re packing up our pencil cases, lunch boxes and textbooks and going back to school. 187 is a film from the 90s that you may have never heard of. Bombing at the box office and receiving poor reviews from critics, it’s gone through something of a reappraisal, and some consider it to be an unjustly overlooked classic, a searing indictment of the American education system and how it fails not just students, but teachers as well. It's a milestone episode for this lowly podcast, as we welcome our very first guest, and the man that recommended this film to us in the first place: Newman from Movies 4 Dayz. Together the 3 of us are deep diving this forgotten flick to see whether it deserves devotion or detention.