Rotten
Basically Brick for remedial viewers.
Justin Chang, Variety
Assassination of a High School President
Politics, popularity, paranoia, pharmaceuticals. Are you in?
2008 · 1h 34m · R
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Directed by
Brett Simon
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Assassination of a High School President
Overview
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief.
Director and cast
- Brett Simon Director
- Reece Thompson as Bobby Funke
- Mischa Barton as Francesca Fachini
- Bruce Willis as Principal Jared T. Kirkpatrick
- Patrick Taylor as Paul Moore
- Melonie Díaz as Clara Diaz
- Luke Grimes as Marlon Piazza
- Michael Rapaport as Coach Z
- Kathryn Morris as Nurse Platt
- Josh Pais as Padre Newell
- Aaron Himelstein as Tad Goltz
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Doesn't find enough novel insights to make for essential viewing.
Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
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
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader
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