Cheaters Page #5

Synopsis: In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High recruits seven students for an academic decathlon team. They work long hours, preparing for the February regional event, won for ten straight years by a privileged, preppy school. Steinmetz finishes just well enough to be invited to the state meet. When a team member steals a copy of the state test, the teacher and kids face a dilemma: to remain honest, or to cheat and score a victory for kids in underfunded schools. When they do well, they must face a withering barrage of investigations, accusations, lawyers' lies, and reporters' intrusions. Is it all worth it? What lessons does cheating teach?
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Stockwell
Production: HBO Video
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
2000
108 min
448 Views


Miss Joan lsenberg.

If you give us the championship decreases,

spanned a process.

Do not let what you can,

we will do so.

You Steinmetz of, huh?

I have seen on TV.

Do your best to the national finals.

- We do that for sure.

We are really high, man.

Look.

Do you see that view.

Hello, I am ...

- Dr. Plecki. We expect you al

I will designate the meeting.

I think I can see Steinmetz.

- Paul, ga re.

I'm sorry I'm late.

Everything good?

When Constantine told what

the hand was, I was pisnijdig.

What a bullshit. Sorry for my language,

I come from the street.

I was not the right school,

not talking posh.

Everyone thinks I am lying

worked up and steal it.

Say that I callback.

And you have not

cheated?

That I had to ask.

You now know how I feel about it.

I do this for nothing

because you are wrong is served.

Therefore, the press here for you.

- The press? For us?

If we want to win, we do it

in public. Wait here. Yes?

As you see in the press,

they are the very best.

They are the leaders of the future.

The best of the school.

But now they would be successful.

The company

Robert A. Clifford and partners ...

the court will enforce ...

that the committee decathlon title

and the entitlement returns.

One question at a time, please.

Six were from Steinmetz.

- We will better our best.

But 17 of the 105 students had

had a math question.

Steinmetz had all of it good.

- Thanks to our math teacher.

How do you explain the high scores?

I have to say.

If we do not have Polish names

and not a poor school were ...

There were no questions.

The rebellion of the Steinmetz -

team reflects the courage and daring.

The question now is

whether they have done.

Whitney Young should not whine.

But they must learn losses.

There is no evidence.

They just worked hard.

If it really is,

they are still smarter than I thought.

Call me.

I have a job for you.

Absolutely.

We have put together scores.

Unless someone proves the contrary,

we are behind the scores.

Should they surrender their title?

I hear only allegations

of people with dubious motives.

I have absolutely no reason

to think that no matter ...

of people who are jealous

because they are unexpected reports.

Says something about Chicago?

- Not about the city itself.

Yes, hello.

Gloria Abrams would I speak?

You speak with Gloria Abrams

the Sun Times.

How did you get my number?

- From Irwin Flickas.

He has given us an essay

decathlon on stolen materials.

We continue tomorrow in the newspaper.

Would you then want to respond?

Dr. Plecki, do you know Irwin Flickas?

Dr. Plecki? Dr. Plecki, you h. ..

Jerry? Is it?

- Sure. Go back to sleep.

There is nothing. Ga again.

we have cheated

Steinmetz title may

still lose

What are you doing?

Jerry, my newspaper. Jerry?

Is there someone murdered or something?

- Yes. You.

What a rock passed, say.

- This is not good.

Hey, scram. What are you doing here?

You want some of this?

If you give them what they want.

- I can study now forgotten.

Ridiculous that he has done so.

- I look so fat.

Am I really that fat?

- Yes, really.

Maybe we need medals

but returned.

Then we can stop this madness

can Young to the final.

We can tell the truth.

- Wait a minute.

You have taught us

one foot in the door to get.

Turn that door now

close to our nose?

What evidence have they?

An essay by a half-illiterate.

People need to know

why Flickas mad at us.

He is jealous.

- We are not mad at him.

We have sympathy with him.

- We do this to the top. Really.

You have us survive.

We must continue to support each other

and the attack going.

Okay.

But you must understand

it only gets worse.

The media will lie, threaten

and you set up against each other.

Look well around you.

These are the only faces

you can trust.

Say something. Have you stolen the key?

- On Thursday. Leave my son alone.

We want to be part of the story

hear.

I get beat.

- Go ahead, Dad.

I'll put you in New York in a hotel.

I take you to the Bulls.

- I take you to Cats.

Away from my house.

I've had enough.

Agnieska is not false.

They won.

Mom, I need to talk to you.

You've done nothing wrong.

You do not know what happened.

Yes. My child is fair.

Mama, I gotta tell you.

I see your son as the sole bright spot

in this whole affair.

He was courageous enough to

wrong to condemn.

Who will play me?

Silence again. The film does not

about you. It's about me.

Let us first

that essay have.

You have the tragic hero,

Irwin Flickas.

And then you also

Irwin Flickas victims.

Finally you get

the redeeming act ...

of Irwin Flickas.

That seems to me interesting.

Your friend is on TV.

- You got my shirt.

I have just told.

- Non-exclusive? I'm screwed.

So my dad gilt:
I save your ass.

Get outta here.

Connie Chung was with me for breakfast.

I am in a hotel in Chicago

for an interview with Angela Lam ...

of the decathlon team last year.

- Look quickly at two.

She says that her coach, Dr. Plecki,

gave her a piece of paper ...

the responses of the super quiz.

- Look quickly at two.

Who is that?

- She was in our school.

Yes, I cheated.

She wants very much.

- Maybe tell them the truth.

The team this year

won the state finals.

But Angela's story

has raised doubts.

I want the team to say:

Be honest if you have cheated.

Cheating may not.

It is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Integrity and ethics

are more important than winning.

What is she doing?

- What is wrong with her?

This is not good.

What if they address us?

- It is not good.

That would be really bales.

- The investigation is still ongoing.

Live from Chicago. Lisa Martin.

Jerry, go home.

- I can explain.

Argie Johnson called. The

school board has suspended you.

Really? On the basis of what?

- Duty, colleagues disadvantage ...

You can best

with someone of the union talk.

Can I use your phone?

- You can use anything from the school.

Where are the children?

- On the road to the school committee.

Listen. I'm already 26 years old.

I do not survive this debacle.

This is my advice.

Further contact is excluded.

Ga home. Keep the door closed.

Do not talk with the press. Stay inside.

Do that now.

We are Jerry Marconi and Corinne Davis,

Advocates of the school committee.

We know that is false, but rather

Dr. Plecki key stolen?

Has he forced you?

- Endangered?

Alcohol offered? Drugs? Sex?

He has made abuse

your age.

You ignorance.

- You innocence.

You're grown up, huh?

And you know what right and wrong.

You know the difference

between right and wrong anyway?

Good?

Error?

I know you do it?

We have not cheated.

Well well,

you look what I got.

The confessions of your teammates.

You know what they say?

That you are the instigator.

That was all your idea.

Come, Dominik.

It is time to confess to.

You're a good Catholic, like

me. We have the same father confessor.

Think of what the Bible says:

Show repent

and your sins are forgiven you.

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John Stockwell

John R. Stockwell (born 1937) is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving seven tours of duty over thirteen years. Having managed American involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies. more…

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