The Substitute 2: School's Out

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The Substitute 2: School's Out

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The Substitute 2: School's Out
DVD cover
Directed by	Steven Pearl
Written by	Roy Frumkes Rocco Simonelli
Based on	Characters by Roy Frumkes Rocco Simonelli Alan Ormsby
Produced by	Morrie Eisenman Robert Salerno
Starring	Treat Williams B. D. Wong Angel David Michael Michele Larry Gilliard Jr.
Cinematography	Larry Banks
Music by	Joe Delia
Distributed by	Artisan Entertainment
Release date	August 1, 1998 (1998-08-01)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Substitute 2: School's Out is a 1998^[1] straight-to-DVD action-crime-thriller film directed by Steven Pearl and starring Treat Williams^[2] as Carl Thomasson (later spelled Karl in the sequels), a mercenary who masquerades as a teacher in order to enter a tough urban school and wreak his revenge upon his brother's killer.^[3]

The film has very little connection to The Substitute, other than Joey Six (protagonist Jonathan Shale's only surviving mercenary in the first film, this time portrayed by Angel David instead of Raymond Cruz) aiding Thomasson during the course of the movie. A reference early in the film indicates, through a photograph and short conversation between Thomasson and Joey Six, that Shale and Jane Hetzko (Shale's girlfriend) had married and now teach in foreign nations as part of the Peace Corps. It is also noted that Shale and Thomasson had served in the Army, as well as worked as mercenaries together.

Plot

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Randall Thomasson is gunned down while attempting to stop a carjacking. His brother, Karl, attends his funeral and attempts to make amends with his niece, who is angry that Karl never contacted her or her father.

Karl decides to investigate his brother's death, and goes undercover as a teacher, facing cynical and reluctant faculty, violent and disruptive students, and a system that—to Karl's eyes—has become broken from the inside, all while attempting to protect his teenage niece.

Recruiting Joey Six, and a rather unorthodox janitor, Thomasson turns the school into an after-hours battleground, fighting against well-armed gang members, and—eventually—the school's auto-repair teacher (B. D. Wong), a former mercenary who is also involved in the gang's chop-shop operation.