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.
10 October 1985, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA
1982, The Bronx, New York, USA
21 September 1991, Seattle, Washington, USA
18 March 1982, New York City, New York, USA
23 October 1996, Livingston, New Jersey, USA
14 February 1990, USA
21 January 1984, Dayton, Ohio, USA
28 February 1995, USA
20 March 1970, New York City, New York, USA
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
28 January 1969, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3 August 1985
22 November 1988, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
17 June 1988, Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
2 February 1988, Nyack, New York, USA
January 22, 2008
Brett Simon's clever high school noir debut is more Heathers than John Hughes
January 29, 2008
Depending on your personal taste, the following statement may make or break Assassination for you: the movie is cute.
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.
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."
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.
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.
January 25, 2008
Basically Brick for remedial viewers.
October 18, 2008
Brett Simon's Assassination of a High School President is a small and pleasant surprise.
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
