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Cheats
Movie Stats & Links |
| Starring: |
Trevor Fehrman,
Elden Henson, Matthew Lawrence, Martin Starr, Mary Tyler
Moore |
| MPAA Rated: |
PG-13 |
| Released By: |
New
Line Cinema |
| Web Site: |
www.cheatersmovie.com |
| Directed By: |
Andrew Gurland |
| Produced By: |
Chris Bender, A. J. Dix, J.C. Spink |
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Cheats
A Movie Preview |
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In my younger days I heard stories about students in high school and
in college who cheated. These were the days before the internet,
before pagers, before cell phones, and before technology. These were
stories of one dude who would pencil in equations on his calculator
for a class where he knew the teacher wouldn't walk during the test,
so, basically, the dude had all of the equations he was supposed to
memorize written on his calculator. The dude even had a plan to
easily swipe away the pencil marks with his finger between the keys
smudging the evidence if need be. Then there was the story of the
"Flying V". I was told it was a simple plan, only really
able to be done in an auditorium setting, and only done without
assigned seating, where the smartest dude of the group would sit in
the middle, towards the front, while all his buddies would sit at an
angle to him, going towards the back, simply giving the group an
easy line of copying answers off of their smartest friend and
passing those answers to the friend behind them. Then there was the
class where the friends knew the professor didn't care if you shared
your eraser with your neighbor, so, well, answers easily went from
friend to friend. And lastly there was the graduate class where the
Dean would leave during the exam and the group of Asian friends
would start talking to each other in their native language so they
could get the right answers while the American dudes in the class
couldn't benefit from their cheating ability. My only advice is to
always go to the last day of class because the tricky professor will
base 90% of the final exam questions on what he said the last day of
class where he knew 60% of the class didn't show up.
That was the old days.
"Cheats" deals with the new days.
Now you can get answers via pager, now kids try to hack into
teacher's computers to get the tests, now kids become more devious
in the masterminding to get the grade, and this seems to be the
movie "Cheats."
Basically, for this movie, things have turned a little more
high-tech (although the drop-ceiling still isn't a great hiding
place) in the student's recon missions to get the answers, or at
least the test questions, and thus get the grade. It isn't so much
about learning things to pass the test; it's about finding the
easiest way not to learn, about finding the answers, even if an
all-nighter could have probably helped more than the spy tactics
used to get the answers. But, in any case, this looks to be a movie
where many a student will go to see looking for a way to get that
edge while many a teacher will see to spot the warning signs.
In a way this movie will should relate to just about any person
who tried to sneak a peek at their neighbor's paper, and hit a
higher note for those with well-planned missions to pass a test. This
could be a good one.
That's it for this preview! I'm The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!! |
