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The Perfect Score Details

2004 Certificate 12 Certificate 12 (TBC)
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High school senior Kyle (Chris Evans) gets a major shock when he discovers his SAT score isn't good enough to get him into college as an architecture major. A perfectionist, Kyle's resilient nature is sparked when he embroils his best friend Matty (Bryan Greenberg) in a madcap scheme to steal the SATs. The boys soon realize the .. Read more

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Darius Miles
Director Brian Robbins
Genres Comedy

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The Perfect Score

High school senior Kyle (Chris Evans) gets a major shock when he discovers his SAT score isn't good enough to get him into college as an architecture major. A perfectionist, Kyle's resilient nature is sparked when he embroils his best friend Matty (Bryan Greenberg) in a madcap scheme to steal the SATs. The boys soon realize the enormity of the task ahead of them, and recruit an eclectic bunch of willing accomplices to help. Among their group are Francesca (Scarlett Johansson), an anti-authoritarian hipster whose father happens to work in the building where the elusive test scores are kept; Anna (Erica Christensen), an overachiever who flunked the test due to nerves; Desmond (Darius Miles), the school's star basketball player who wants to get into a good college; and Ray (Leonardo Nam), a hapless stoner who is only included in the group after overhearing Kyle and Matty planning the robbery in the school bathroom. Determined not to fail, the students overcome their different backgrounds and manage to work together by planning an SAT heist in meticulous detail. As the harebrained scheme becomes a reality, moments of bonding, hilarity, and a few lessons in life ensue, as well as a sly critique of the tests along race and gender lines.

Starring Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Darius Miles, Leonardo Nam, Matthew Lillard, Bryan Greenberg, Tyra Ferrell, Vanessa Angel, Bill Mackenzie
Director Brian Robbins
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 29 mins
Watch now: 1 hr 32 mins
Certificate DVD: Certificate 12, Watch Online: Certificate 12 (TBC)
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Watch Online: English
Released DVD: 13 Sep 2004
Watch now: 28 Aug 2009
Production year: 2004
Watch now £2.49
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Perfect Score

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Stressed-out older kids coping with exam pressure might find a little to identify with in this below-par teen comedy, but everyone else would be advised to give it a miss. A group of high-schoolers desperate to get into university are led by Jason Priestley-lookalike Chris Evans in a plan to steal the question papers for a vital aptitude test. All the Breakfast Club-inspired stereotypes are present and correct: the jock, the stoner, the brain … and so on. What isn't in evidence is any particular charm, or much of the genuine angst that afflicts adolescents come exam time, which could have elevated this into something more than the derivative caper movie it turns out to be.

    • Radio Times
  • Hard not to suspect this teen movie might be languishing on a shelf were it not for the fortuitous presence of Scarlett... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
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  • 6 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    one of the most tedious uninvolving films i have ever seen.It makes watching paint dry exciting

      • A customer from TWICKENHAM
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  • 5 out of 6 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    don't select this

    If you are an american teenager about to sit your SAT exams then you may find this film OK... if not then don't bother it's terrible. Who cares about american teens complaining about having to take exams and then trying to steal the exam paper? not me.

      • will parkes from northwich
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