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Assassination of a High School President
An ambitious young fact-finder teams up with the most popular girl in a Catholic high school to investigate the theft of the SAT exams. Once the duo target their suspects, a larger conspiracy is unearthed.
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
26 August 1984, Ohio, USA
22 February 1985, Montpelier, Ohio, USA
19 March 1955, Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
8 February 1986, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
21 September 1991, Seattle, Washington, USA
1982, The Bronx, New York, USA
May 19, 2008
The flick plays like "Rushmore" meets "The Usual Suspects," alongside shout-outs to everything from "Sixteen Candles" to "Chinatown" to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
January 29, 2008
Assassination has a meandering plot line that dithers when it should drive forward, and lingers at times it should leap ahead.
January 25, 2008
Basically Brick for remedial viewers.
October 01, 2009
The entire film wants to be a carbon copy of Rushmore, with the addition of dark slickness and the omission of general quality.
January 25, 2008
Doesn't find enough novel insights to make for essential viewing.
October 18, 2008
Brett Simon's Assassination of a High School President is a small and pleasant surprise.
October 04, 2009
Superbad meets grossout noir, boasting tangy teen dirty talk so thick, you could cut it with a well sharpened pencil. Which by the way, somebody does more than once.
January 29, 2008
Depending on your personal taste, the following statement may make or break Assassination for you: the movie is cute.
February 02, 2010
The noir pastiche is sitcom-ish, the characters vestigial, and the satire of high school so compromised I wondered if cowriters Tim Calpin and Kevin Jakubowski weren't home-schooled
January 22, 2008
Brett Simon's clever high school noir debut is more Heathers than John Hughes
