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  • Actors: Jeff Daniels, Jena Malone, Paul Sorvino, Luke Edwards, Blake Heron
  • Directors: John Stockwell
  • Format: Full Screen, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 7 Jun 2004
  • Run Time: 102 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00005V8VQ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 65,627 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In the coda of Cheaters, John Stockwell's dramatisation of the 1995 Steinmetz school scandal, Jolie Fitch (Jena Malone) ruminates, "I learned more about the way the world really works from my nine months on the academic decathlon team than most people will learn in a lifetime". Fitch is the team leader of the crumbling inner-city school's first "academic decathlon" squad, a group of hard-working kids hopelessly outclassed by the perennial champions from a lavishly funded model school for the gifted and the rich. When a Steinmetz student discovers the question sheet for the upcoming finals, the issue isn't whether to cheat, but how. Stockwell discards easy moralising and empty platitudes for an ambiguous perspective framed by questions of privilege and prejudice. Jeff Daniels, so long the cinema's hapless nice guy, is excellent as the tireless teacher, a well-meaning idealist who struggles with his inner demons through the ordeal. Malone is refreshing as a streetwise class brain whose ambition drives the team on. Their guilt is the focus of a predatory media scandal, but it's the hypocrisy of the system and the double standards of the gatekeepers that Stockwell takes to task in his compelling drama. Some might call it cynical, but Cheaters is too sharp and smart for such an easy label. Better to call it disillusioned.--Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

DVD Description
Special features
Theatrical Trailer

Feature Length: 101 mins approx
Video Aspect Ratio: feature - 4:3
Subtitles: None.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good film about dishonesty, 10 April 2006
By Miland Joshi (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
If you enjoyed Shattered Glass and Rogue Trader, you will like this film. The rascals in this case are a group of High School students who, with the full connivance and even leadership of their teacher use a stolen examination paper to cheat in an academic competition. Jeff Daniels does an excellent portrayal of the teacher (a Dr. Plecki) who because of his desire to win at all costs, offers little resistance when he learns that one of his students has stolen a copy of the exam. The way in which Plecki prevails on a Russian student who has misgivings to go along with the scheme appears particularly reprehensible. In an ironic scene, Plecki warns a group of half a dozen students that according to Benjamin Franklin, the only way for a group of three people to keep a secret is for two to be dead. Based on a true story, the film is also a good morality play for today.
Highly recommended.
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