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Eleven students conspire with their teacher to cheat on an academic competition.Eleven students conspire with their teacher to cheat on an academic competition.Eleven students conspire with their teacher to cheat on an academic competition.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 4 nominations total
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Alex Poch-Goldin
- Jerry Marconi
- (as Alex Poch Goldin)
Jeff A. Wright
- Josh Haden
- (as Jeff Wright)
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- TriviaDirector John Stockwell and the film's producers hired a private investigator to track down the real Dr. Gerald Plecki. It took nearly half a year to convince Plecki to sell his rights and become involved in the production.
- GoofsWhen Dr. Plecki and the students are watching "Stand and Deliver" at his house, the scenes from that movie are shown out of order in "Cheaters".
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Irwin Flickas: It was a multiple choice test. Nobody told me you could only pick one answer!
- ConnectionsFeatures Stand and Deliver (1988)
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Good, but I have a bit of a bias
I saw this movie for the first time in 8th grade and thought it was great. Funny and entertaining, with a bit of a moral thrown in. Once I went to highschool my view changed somewhat, considering I went to (and am at) Whitney Young. It's been said here before, but the characterization is all wrong. Whitney has a majority of black students and is neither private nor in the suburbs. At the time the movie was made, Whitney was simply the best public school in the city (new rivals have cropped up in recent years), and so it developed a nucleus of extremely intelligent kids. For the most part they are not the privileged suburbanites portrayed in the movie, although there have been some families that would move into the city just to send their kids there. Anyways, it killed the moral for me, but it showed me a different fault in the Chicago Public schools, that good schools get help while smaller ones get forgotten. This was the story of a forgotten school fighting to get their name back into the light. They went about it the wrong way, but there is something to be learned from it. Or maybe not, considering the funding gap just seems to get worse.
But if I forget all of this, ignore the realities, this is still a great movie.
But if I forget all of this, ignore the realities, this is still a great movie.
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- dysfnctional101
- Nov 14, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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