A mutant hybrid of a heist movie and The Breakfast Club, The Perfect Score follows a clutch of kids who steal the answers to an upcoming SAT test: An aspiring architect (Chris Evans) who isn't quite achieving his dreams (or his parents' expectations); his middling pal (Bryan Greenburg) whose girlfriend is already in college; an overachiever (Erika Christensen, Traffic) who freezes under pressure; a basketball star (NBA player Darius Miles) whose grades don't match his game; a stoner (Leonardo Nam) who falls into the scheme by accident; and a rich punk girl (Scarlett Johansson) who wants to strike back at her neglectful father. The heist itself is nonsensical, but the interplay of personalities manages to keep the movie afloat. Still, only Nam and Johansson (who, after Ghost World, Lost in Translation, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, is becoming a true movie star) stand out of the bland pack. --Bret Fetzer
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High school senior Kyle (Chris Evans) gets a major shock when he discovers his SAT score isn't good enough to get him into college as an architecture major. A perfectionist, Kyle's resilient nature is sparked when he embroils his best friend Matty (Bryan Greenberg) in a madcap scheme to steal the SATs. The boys soon realize the enormity of the task ahead of them, and recruit an eclectic bunch of willing accomplices to help. Among their group are Francesca (Scarlett Johansson), an anti-authoritarian hipster whose father happens to work in the building where the elusive test scores are kept; Anna (Erica Christensen), an overachiever who flunked the test due to nerves; Desmond (Darius Miles), the school's star basketball player who wants to get into a good college; and Ray (Leonardo Nam), a hapless stoner who is only included in the group after overhearing Kyle and Matty planning the robbery in the school bathroom. Determined not to fail, the students overcome their different backgrounds and manage to work together by planning an SAT heist in meticulous detail. As the harebrained scheme becomes a reality, moments of bonding, hilarity, and a few lessons in life ensue, as well as a sly critique of the tests along race and gender lines.
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High school senior Kyle is an aspiring architect with dreams of attending an Ivy League school, but his SAT scores don’t rate. He masterminds a plan to get inside the building that houses not only the answers to the exam but also the key to his future. But first he must assemble his team...
Heading Kyle’s list is his best friend Matty, a less than stellar student who wants to go to the University of Maryland, the college his girlfriend attends, but so far the only thing Matty’s test scores have scored him is a rejection letter. Kyle’s next recruit is pretty blonde-haired Anna. She could ace the SAT and get into Brown — where her parents expect her to go -- but she’s tired of always trying to live up to their expectations rather than her own. Anna brings Desmond into the fold. He’s the star basketball player who’s smart enough to go after an education first and then join the NBA -- but Desmond scores well on the court, not the SAT, and most colleges say he doesn’t make the cut. Edgy, anti-establishment Francesca provides access to the local testing headquarters since her dad works in the building, and free-spirited Roy rounds out the group when he accidentally overhears the plan while smoking in a bathroom.
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"The Breakfast Club meets Ocean's Eleven."-Jack Garner, Gannett News Service
Determined not to let the S.A.T. exam unfairly define their lives, six wildly different teens devise a way to get the perfect score...by stealing the answers to the test!
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"The Breakfast Club meets Ocean's Eleven."-Jack Garner, Gannett News Service
Pop Quiz: How do you get a perfect score on the S.A.T. exam? For a group of stressed-out teens, there's only one way...steal the answers.
Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation), Erika Christensen (Traffic), Chris Evans (Not Another Teen Movie) and NBA star Darius Miles lead this hip coming-of-age comedy about six students who try to break into the testing center and steal the answers to the S.A.T. The classmates are wildly different, but share a common goal-to prevent the standardized test from unfairly defining their lives. As they plot a hilarious heist that could make-or break-their futures, the students grow closer, never suspecting where they'll ultimately find the real answers...within themselves.
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