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The Perfect Score

Hailed as a cross between Ocean’s Eleven and The Breakfast Club, The Perfect Score is a fun, fluffy MTV film that targets the teen demographic to perfection. Chris Evans (of Fantastic Four fame) stars as Kyle, a high school senior harboring the dream of attending Cornell and becoming an architect. The only thing standing in his way? A 1430 on the SATs. He’s already taken them once, and is terrified that his hard work won’t pay off on the retest.

Enter Matty, Kyle’s best friend—a lovesick senior whose girlfriend is already a college freshman. He’s determined to attend her school, even though she hasn’t been calling as much and things haven’t been the same since she left. The two friends come up with the idea of breaking into the building that houses the SAT answers.

They have to approach Francesca (Scarlett Johansson), an outspoken, activist-type, because her Dad owns the building with the answers. After discussing the merits and disadvantages of including Francesca in the heist at a basketball game, Kyle makes the not-with-his-brain decision to invite the salutatorian, Anna Ross (Erika Christensen) into the group, as he noticed she left her entire SAT form blank the first time they took the test.

Anna, in turn, invites the horrible-at-verbal star of the basketball team along to the heist, after discovering he needs a 900 on the SAT to go to his choice college. Finally, after having a fight in the men’s bathroom, Kyle and Matty are forced to invite Roy, considering he overheard their entire plan. Roy is the school stoner and also the movie’s narrator. Thus, the motley crew is assembled.

The gang works out an elaborate plan (a la Ocean’s Eleven) to steal the test answers, while finding out they’re not so different after all (a la The Breakfast Club). The plan succeeds (not without a few hitches), but the gang decides that they each had the answers inside them all along.

There isn’t much else to it, but with a knockout cast, The Perfect Score delivers a charismatic, cinematic experience. Light, fun (albeit predictable) entertainment.

Written by: Tracy Elledge

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