This movie is not even close. I went to Steinmetz when this happened, and one of the kids in this was a friend of mine. We went to Monroe middle school together, and wound up going to the same high school. His name was Thomas and he was always smart and always top of his class. Neither school was portrayed accurately. This movie would have been OK if I didn't know any better. I guess its true what they say about a "based on a true story" movie. Its 5% truth and 95% fiction. I wish they would have done a little more research on the schools before making this film. Whitney Young was the school to beat at that time, but they were not the tidy little students you see in this film. They had the same gang fights we had, the same trouble makers in class (me), The thing they had that we didn't was better teachers.

Bottom line, cheating is fun, smart, and funny.Don't try this at school.This movie is a great film about the lives of a few students who cheat there way through school. Great acting and script is fantastic. It starts out good and ends even better. I was never bored throughout the whole time I was watching it. Even though a lot of the cheating is a bit unreasonable at times, it still give that feel that anyone can do it. If you are in the mood for some comedy about high school students who cheat, then watch this film. 2 thumbs up.

I found this movie really enlightening. In fact, I am currently perticipating in this competition at this very moment, regionals are tomorrow. In, regards to the previous commenter, actually the "private" school in the movie is actually a public school. In fact it's probably the best school in the state public/private it's Whitney Young High School and their basically elite, they win the competition every year hands down, and the other school, Steinmetz, it's not right how they auotmatically assumed that the cheated, but they have good reason. It's sad to say but it's not a good school in the first place academically or socially, plus you wouldn't expect a school that barely passed regionals to go on to win the city.P.S. If your wondering, when they were announcing the winners and stuff, my schools was the second most named school behing Whitney young :) I hope we do as well this year but I doubt it because we don't even have 9 members.

If you watched this film and came out of it wondering what it meant then you need to watch it again. The film is mildly entertaining but is the best work of lies I have ever seen. Most people can not keep a secret for five seconds let alone the amount of time these kids did. The best line is the very last one in the movie. I own this movie b/c you can get it for cheap at most stores now and it is not a bad film to own. Just don't let someone get the wrong idea when watching it b/c cheating of course is wrong and does not need to happen.