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Cheaters (2000)
TV Movie -
 108 min - Drama
6.7
Eleven students conspire with their teacher to cheat on an academic competition. Director:John StockwellWriter:John Stockwell |
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| Jeff Daniels | ... | ||
| Jena Malone | ... |
Jolie Fitch
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Constantine Kiamos
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| Luke Edwards | ... |
Darius Bettus
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Blake Heron | ... |
Matt Kur
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Irwin Flickas
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Dan Warry-Smith | ... |
Paul Kurgan
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Anna Raj | ... |
Agnieska Maryniarczyk
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Dominik Podbielski | ... |
Dominik Wesolowski
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Ned Eisenberg | ... |
Robert Clifford
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Larry Minkoff
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Lenka Peterson | ... |
Mrs. Plecki
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| Alex Poch-Goldin | ... |
Jerry Marconi
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Karen Glave | ... |
Corrine Davis
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Joan Isenberg
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In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High recruits seven students for an academic decathlon team. They work long hours, preparing for the February regional event, won for ten straight years by a privileged, preppy school. Steinmetz finishes just well enough to be invited to the state meet. When a team member steals a copy of the state test, the teacher and kids face a dilemma: to remain honest, or to cheat and score a victory for kids in underfunded schools. When they do well, they must face a withering barrage of investigations, accusations, lawyers' lies, and reporters' intrusions. Is it all worth it? What lessons does cheating teach? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Jolie Fitch: Of course they do. Doesn't the decathlon have their offices at Whitney Young? I mean, you do the math.
Dominik Wesolowski: So, two wrongs would make a right?
Darius Bettus: No. Two wrongs make it even.
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Written by Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley
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The film is based upon the events of the infamous Steinmetz Cheating Scandal that took place at the Illinois Academic Decathlon State Championship in 1995, in which the real-life Dr. Gerald Plecki and his seven students did lose to Whitney Young High School at the Regional Decathlon Championship but mysteriously won the State Championship. Later the students were accused of cheating by the State Decathlon Committee, the Department of Education, and Whitney Young (which lost to Steinmetz at the competition). It was eventually discovered that the students did cheat, although several of the students to this day maintain that they did not. See more »Goofs
Continuity: Although the scandal took place in 1995, the bottom of the page of the Chicago Sun-Times that Irwin Flickas is looking at clearly states "Vol. 53 No. 11 2000". See more »Quotes
Darius Bettus: Well, if we could get the tests, I'm sure Whitney Young has them too.Jolie Fitch: Of course they do. Doesn't the decathlon have their offices at Whitney Young? I mean, you do the math.
Dominik Wesolowski: So, two wrongs would make a right?
Darius Bettus: No. Two wrongs make it even.
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"Roads"Written by Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley
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