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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".
- Quotes
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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"Isn't Cheating Wrong?"
What I absolutely loved about this movie is the fact that it displays a genuine moral dilemma without necessarily preaching anything. It doesn't provide viewers a standpoint for moral ascendancy, instead, the viewers get the pleasure of interpreting the situation, thus gaining that threshold for ascendancy.
I'd say the film did play out a bias, and the bias was in favor of the students from Steimetz High. I'd say that it is rather a fair bias, because it is rare to see the cheaters as the protagonist. Amidst this, they weren't portrayed as the over-glamorized heroes that will promote a cheating society. What John Stockwell did was to give us a dose of reality, an arena for sympathize with cheaters, at the same time, displaying the consequences of the human act.
I love the mixture of documentary footages. Opening Credits was awesome, wherein there were raw footage in grainy stock of actual American high school. It played greatly on the emotional framework that the film worked on and I'm so glad my parents were able to find a copy of the film on DVD.
I'd say the film did play out a bias, and the bias was in favor of the students from Steimetz High. I'd say that it is rather a fair bias, because it is rare to see the cheaters as the protagonist. Amidst this, they weren't portrayed as the over-glamorized heroes that will promote a cheating society. What John Stockwell did was to give us a dose of reality, an arena for sympathize with cheaters, at the same time, displaying the consequences of the human act.
I love the mixture of documentary footages. Opening Credits was awesome, wherein there were raw footage in grainy stock of actual American high school. It played greatly on the emotional framework that the film worked on and I'm so glad my parents were able to find a copy of the film on DVD.
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- insomniac_dreamer
- Mar 4, 2005
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- Những kẻ gian lận
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- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 1.78 : 1
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