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Director:
Writer (WGA):
John Stockwell (written by)
Release Date:
20 May 2000 (USA) more
Tagline:
Putting The System To The Test
Plot:
Eleven students conspire with their teacher to cheat on an academic competition. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations more
User Comments:
"Isn't Cheating Wrong?" more (60 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jeff Daniels | ... | Dr. Gerard Plecki | |
| Jena Malone | ... | Jolie Fitch | |
| Paul Sorvino | ... | Constantine Kiamos | |
| Luke Edwards | ... | Darius Bettus | |
| Blake Heron | ... | Matt Kur | |
| Dov Tiefenbach | ... | Irwin Flickas | |
| Dan Warry-Smith | ... | Paul Kurgan | |
| Anna Raj | ... | Agnieska Maryniarczyk | |
| Dominik Podbielski | ... | Dominik Wesolowski | |
| Ned Eisenberg | ... | Robert Clifford | |
| Robert Joy | ... | Larry Minkoff | |
| Lenka Peterson | ... | Mrs. Plecki | |
| Alex Poch-Goldin | ... | Jerry Marconi (as Alex Poch Goldin) | |
| Karen Glave | ... | Corrine Davis | |
| Marcia Bennett | ... | Joan Isenberg |
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Rated R for language.
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108 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Iceland:L | USA:R | Germany:12
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Director 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. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When 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". more
Quotes:
Irwin Flickas: It was a multiple choice test. Nobody told me you could only pick one answer! more
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Features Stand and Deliver (1988) more
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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.