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Four high school friends use their various skills to create a crack team of academic cheaters in
Cheats: Handsome (Trevor Fehrman), the ringleader who finds a way to squirrel out of anything; Sammy (Elden Henson), his childhood cohort, who's starting to wonder if honest effort might be more rewarding than cheating; Victor (Matthew Lawrence), an up-and-coming thug with good looks; and Applebee (Martin Starr), who writes the smallest and most precise crib notes of all time. They've held it together until their senior year, when their conflicting morals create rifts that threaten their solidarity.
Cheats wants to be a combination of a classic heist flick and a celebration of the outsider, like
Rushmore; unfortunately, everything about the movie feels false, from its depiction of the high school hierarchy to the implausible schemes. Also featuring Mary Tyler Moore as the school principal.
--Bret Fetzer
Product Description
Cheats is the story of Handsome, Sammy, Victor, and Applebee, the four best cheaters at North Point Academy. Thanks to the school's principal, Mrs. Stark, their day is over at the start of their final high school year when their latest cheating plot is uncovered. The gang decides to go straight to save their permanent records and chance of getting into college. But how long can they be good when every test provides a new opportunity. Matthew Lawrence and Trevor Fehrman star in this hilarious comedy that proves that all it takes to get ahead in school is the right kind of education. Their only obstacle is Mary Tyler Moore as the suspicious principal on a mission to stop them.