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The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (2001)

The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option poster
Directed by
Robert Radler
Genre
action film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
5.2 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A former mercenary goes undercover as a teacher at a military school. He must stop a white supremacist cult operating there.

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What happens

The Substitute: Failure Is Not An Option (also known as The Substitute 4) is a 2001 action thriller film directed by Robert Radler and starring Treat Williams as Karl Thomasson, a former mercenary who must infiltrate a military school's faculty to stop the actions of a white supremacist cult. The film is the fourth and final installment in The Substitute series and was released direct-to-video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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