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Director
  
Robert Radler

Initial DVD release
  
October 23, 2001

Country
  
United States

4.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Action, Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
April 24, 2001 (2001-04-24)

Writer
  
Roy Frumkes (characters), Dan Gurskis, Alan Ormsby (characters), Rocco Simonelli (characters)

Prequel
  
The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All

Cast
  
Treat Williams
(Karl Thomasson),
Angie Everhart
(Jenny),
Patrick Kilpatrick
(Brack),
Grayson Fricke
(Ted Teague),
Simon Rhee
(Lim),
Scott Miles
(Buckner)

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Treat Williams appears in The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option and The Substitute 2: Schools Out

The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not An Option is a 2001 action film. It stars Treat Williams once again 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 fourth and final installment in The Substitute series and was released direct-to-video.

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Plot

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Karl Thomasson (Williams), an ex-Special Forces soldier and retired mercenary is approached by his old army buddy Teague who gives him a mission: working undercover at a military school where Ted, Teague's nephew, is one of the cadets. Teague believes that the cadets and the student faculty are part of a white supremacist cult being run at the school. Karl accepts the mission and begins working as a history teacher at the school, seeking to expose and eradicate the cult.

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While investigating, Karl teams up with Devlin, who served with Karl in the U.S. Army, who works at the school as a martial arts teacher. They learn that Colonel Brack is leader of the cult and Ted is one of the cult members.

Cast

  • Treat Williams as Karl Thomasson,a former U.S. Special Forces soldiers and mercenary.
  • Angie Everhart as Jenny, a beautiful doctor at the academy and Karl's love interest.
  • Patrick Kilpatrick as Col J.C. Brack, the military academy's Commanding officer and founder of the Werewolf Cult.
  • Bill Nunn as Luther, an ex-soldier who works as a janitor at the military academy.
  • Tim Abell as Devlin, an ex-soldier who works as a martial arts teacher at the academy.
  • Grayson Fricke as Ted Teague, a cadet and Werewolf cult member who later regrets joining it.
  • Simon Rhee as Lim, a Korean soldier who is a Drill Instructor of the Werewolf cult.
  • Scott Miles as Buckner, an arrogant, racist cadet and the cadet commander of the academy and of the Werewolf cult.
  • Brian Beegle as Frey, Ted's best friend and Werewolf cult member.
  • Samantha Thomas as Harmon, a bossy, loud-mouthed female cadet.
  • Jonathan Michael Weatherly as Malik, a cadet.
  • Lori Beth Edgeman as Cunningham, a female cadet who is picked on at by Harmon.
  • Moe Michaels as Robson, a cadet.
  • J. Don Ferguson as Colonel Teague, Karl's old war buddy and Ted's uncle.
  • K. C. Powe as Sissy, a waitress at a bar and Brack's daughter.

    • Reception

    Robert Pardi of TV Guide rated it 2/4 stars and wrote that the film, though preposterous, is tolerable if one lowers their expectations. Aaron Beirle of DVD Talk rated it 0.5/5 stars and wrote, "Even for the low-budget action (or, as I call it 'cable action') genre, Substitute 4 remains a pretty dull actioner."

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