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<h1>Remixed teen formula scores a 1450</h1>
<p><strong><font size="3">'Breakfast Club' knockoff occasionally dabbles in cheesiness, but still
entertains</font></strong></p>
<p><strong><font size="2">By Nathan Hathaway</font></strong></p>
<p>Good news. “The Breakfast Club” hits theaters today. But
it’s got a different name—“The Perfect Score.”</p>
<p> A group of high schoolers in a coming-of-age story that takes place
in a high-pressure environment. But this time it’s not detention.
It’s a crazy scheme to hijack the answers to the SAT.</p>
<p> A group of students who, under any other circumstances, would never
even bother smiling at each other are serendipitously brought together
to
complete the ultimate high-school heist.</p>
<p> The super athlete. The 4.0 student with overly rigid parents. The aspiring
kid who has to get into his dream school. The pothead/closet genius/really
cool guy. The cryptic, dark, pretty-ugly girl.</p>
<p> “
The Perfect Score” director Brian Robbins had to have been inspired
by John Hughes’ 1985 hit. The 1980s’ famous “Brat Pack” (Molly
Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy and Emilio Estevez)
stars as five kids from totally different backgrounds caught in detention
who become friends after nearly killing each other while locked up in
the school library.</p>
<p> “
The Perfect Score” has the same elements. But this time, instead
of detention in the library, it’s a complex plan to break into
ETS, where the answer key to the SAT is held.</p>
<p> Ten minutes into the movie, after he’s rejected by the University
of Maryland, Matty (Bryan Greenberg) inexplicably suggests to his best
friend Kyle (Chris Evans), who desperately wants to get into Cornell,
that they steal the answers to the SAT, a somewhat over-the-top proposal
for a couple of kids who scored fairly well the last time they took it
(more than 1,000). Plus it comes out of nowhere. Knowing the premise
of the movie, it’s obvious the idea had to pop up somehow, but
it wasn’t done well. Too abrupt.</p>
<p> Kyle buys into it because he’s convinced the standardized test
isn’t fair for a non-standardized population. He’s convinced
the SAT is ruining their lives.</p>
<p> “
When you walk into this room,” the movie’s narrator says, “It’s
not about who you are; it’s about who you will become.”</p>
<p> Once the scheme takes flight, it’s all high-tension, meticulously
planned action.</p>
<p> As it all goes down, of course, the seeds of romances are sown and
lives change. During the time frame of the group actually being in the
building,
the movie throws you a curve or two, but for the most part it is entirely
too readable. And it draws dangerously close to the point of cheesiness.</p>
<p> NBA star Darius Miles, in his feature film acting debut, seems a little
rigid and only looks natural on screen when he’s—surprise!—playing
basketball. Scarlett Johansson, Hollywood’s new darling, does very
well as Francesca, the dark personality who ends up being quite lovable.
And little-known Leonardo Nam turns in an excellent, and extremely funny,
performance as the perma-stoned Roy.</p>
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