The S.A.T is hard to take. It's even harder to steal.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital 5.1, English Subtitle
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 leads 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.
"A thin, pleasant teenage heist comedy with a chewy nugget of social criticism buried inside it. " A.O. Scott, New York Times
"Energetic, smarter-than-expected teen comedy. " Brian Lowry, Variety
Editor's Note
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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