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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 January 1984, Dayton, Ohio, USA
2 February 1988, Nyack, New York, USA
10 October 1985, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA
17 June 1988, Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
28 January 1969, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
8 February 1986, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
22 February 1985, Montpelier, Ohio, USA
18 March 1982, New York City, New York, USA
28 February 1995, USA
19 April 1987, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
January 29, 2008
Depending on your personal taste, the following statement may make or break Assassination for you: the movie is cute.
January 22, 2008
Brett Simon's clever high school noir debut is more Heathers than John Hughes
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.
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 25, 2008
Doesn't find enough novel insights to make for essential viewing.
January 29, 2008
Assassination has a meandering plot line that dithers when it should drive forward, and lingers at times it should leap ahead.
October 18, 2008
Brett Simon's Assassination of a High School President is a small and pleasant surprise.
January 25, 2008
Basically Brick for remedial viewers.
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
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.