Themes: Terrorism, Crime Gone Awry, Teachers and Students
Main Cast: Dolph Lundgren
Release Year: 2002
Country: CA
Run Time: 84 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Call it "Die Hard in a School," director Sidney J. Furie's Detention stars Dolph Lundgren as Sam Decker, a teacher who gets more than he bargained for on his last day on the job. Monitoring an after-school detention class filled with a ragtag bunch of young ruffians, Decker suddenly discovers that the school has been taken over by a gang of terrorists. Little do they know, Decker is a former Marine. With the odds stacked against them, Decker and his students attempt to thwart the bad guys' plans and make it out of the school alive. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
The 2003action filmDetention, directed by Sidney J. Furie, stars Dolph Lundgren as a soon to be retired high school teacher Sam Decker who has one last detention to proctor and Alex Karzis as Chester Lamb. Unfortunately, drug runners have chosen to attack the school. Sam must band together the trouble makers and misfits in detention to defeat the criminals and stay alive.
Plot
Sam Decker (Dolph Lundgren) is a former soldier who took a job teaching in his neighborhood after retiring from military service, only to find that his efforts seem to make no difference to the students in his tough inner city school. The day before he resigns, he is assigned to observe detention over some of the school's troublemakers. When a group of murderous drug smugglers invade the school after hours to help prepare their escape with a large volume of hijacked cocaine, both criminals and students are surprised. Part of a conspiracy that stretches to the highest levels of government, the invaders—leader Chester Lamb (Alex Karzis), henchmen Gloria Waylon (Kata Dobo), punkers Viktor (Joseph Scoren) and Alek (Anthony J. Mifsud)—stalk the students through the school, but Decker and his students are not the victims the villains expect. They fight back.
