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.
26 August 1984, Ohio, USA
16 May 1990, New York City, New York, USA
22 November 1988, White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
10 January 1989, New York City, New York, USA
25 April 1984, New York City, New York, USA
10 October 1985, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA
28 February 1995, USA
18 March 1982, New York City, New York, USA
17 June 1988, Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kharkiv, Ukraine]
21 June 1964, New York City, New York, USA
19 April 1987, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
22 February 1985, Montpelier, Ohio, USA
8 February 1986, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
3 August 1985
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
Doesn't find enough novel insights to make for essential viewing.
October 18, 2008
Brett Simon's Assassination of a High School President is a small and pleasant surprise.
January 22, 2008
Brett Simon's clever high school noir debut is more Heathers than John Hughes
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."
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
January 25, 2008
Basically Brick for remedial viewers.
January 29, 2008
Depending on your personal taste, the following statement may make or break Assassination for you: the movie is cute.
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.
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.
