The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All
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The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All is a 1999
action
thriller film
starring Treat Williams
, a mercenary who masquerades as a teacher in order to expose a college football team's steroid-abuse scandal. This movie was later released on DVD in 2000 and bundled with the first movie.
What he finds is shocking: the college's football coach is involved in a steroid-doping scandal, and his 'juiced' students were responsible for the attack on the teacher. Thomasson recruits his old team, planting surveillance equipment in a jukebox inside a local sports-bar that hosts a number of the coach's football players.
It turns out that the coach was doping his players, and rigging football games, to pay off his backers -- a local crime syndicate. When the audio equipment draws the attention of the syndicate's thugs, one of Karl's team is killed in the van, and Karl's calm and collected mask begins to slip.
When one of Thomasson's students dies from a steroid overdose, Thomasson finally loses his jovial nature, confronting the coach and telling him that he knows how the student died, that he knows the coach is responsible, and that he has audiotape to prove his allegations.
In one last showdown, Karl defeats the syndicate and reveals the doping scandal -- as he leaves, and the credits roll, a radio news report reveals that the football coach committed suicide in disgrace.
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
action
Action film
Action film is a film genre where one or more heroes is thrust into a series of challenges that require physical feats, extended fights and frenetic chases...
thriller film
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starring Treat Williams
Treat Williams
Richard Treat Williams is a Screen Actors Guild Award–nominated American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television...
, a mercenary who masquerades as a teacher in order to expose a college football team's steroid-abuse scandal. This movie was later released on DVD in 2000 and bundled with the first movie.
Cast
- Treat WilliamsTreat WilliamsRichard Treat Williams is a Screen Actors Guild Award–nominated American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television...
as Karl Thomasson - David Jenson as Macy
- Barbara Jane ReamsBarbara Jane ReamsBarbara Jane Reams , born 7 April 1976 in Burley, Idaho, is an American actress.-Filmography:*2000 - Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder ....... as Mary Ingalls...
as Albanian Girl - Brian Simpsons as Soldier #1
- Jeff Jenson as Soldier #2
- Rebecca StaabRebecca StaabRebecca Ann Staab is an American actress and former beauty queen who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.- Biography :Staab was born in Hays, Kansas and grew up in Ralston, Nebraska. She graduated in 1979 from Ralston Senior High School...
as Professor Nicole Stewart - Erin ChambersErin ChambersErin Chambers is an American actress commonly known for her roles in LDS films and as the Irish girl Siobhan McKenna on General Hospital. She has made guest appearances in a number of television shows...
as Terri - Michael Shane Davis as Josh Silver
- James Black as Rahmel
- Ed Cameron as Bo Robison
- Christian Jenson as Thad
- Danny Hansen as Jeremy Phillips
Synopsis
Students at a local college have become unusually antagonistic, and when a teacher is attacked by a gang of steroid-pumped students, Karl Thomasson -- having earned a teacher's degree to facilitate his actions in the previous film -- returns to the classroom to uncover the truth.What he finds is shocking: the college's football coach is involved in a steroid-doping scandal, and his 'juiced' students were responsible for the attack on the teacher. Thomasson recruits his old team, planting surveillance equipment in a jukebox inside a local sports-bar that hosts a number of the coach's football players.
It turns out that the coach was doping his players, and rigging football games, to pay off his backers -- a local crime syndicate. When the audio equipment draws the attention of the syndicate's thugs, one of Karl's team is killed in the van, and Karl's calm and collected mask begins to slip.
When one of Thomasson's students dies from a steroid overdose, Thomasson finally loses his jovial nature, confronting the coach and telling him that he knows how the student died, that he knows the coach is responsible, and that he has audiotape to prove his allegations.
In one last showdown, Karl defeats the syndicate and reveals the doping scandal -- as he leaves, and the credits roll, a radio news report reveals that the football coach committed suicide in disgrace.