Product Details

• Actors: Trevor Fehrman, Matthew Lawrence, Elden Henson, Kathryn Anderson, Babs Chula
• Directors: Andrew Gurland
• Writers: Andrew Gurland
• Producers: A.J. Dix, Bryan Hickel, Chris Bender, Dan Nicolas, J.C. Spink
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: New Line Home Video
• DVD Release Date: March 18, 2003
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000897DY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42,463 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Cheats" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Four high school friends use their various skills to create a crack team of academic cheaters in Cheats: Handsome (Trevor Fehrman), the ringleader who finds a way to squirrel out of anything; Sammy (Elden Henson), his childhood cohort, who's starting to wonder if honest effort might be more rewarding than cheating; Victor (Matthew Lawrence), an up-and-coming thug with good looks; and Applebee (Martin Starr), who writes the smallest and most precise crib notes of all time. They've held it together until their senior year, when their conflicting morals create rifts that threaten their solidarity. Cheats wants to be a combination of a classic heist flick and a celebration of the outsider, like Rushmore; unfortunately, everything about the movie feels false, from its depiction of the high school hierarchy to the implausible schemes. Also featuring Mary Tyler Moore as the school principal. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description

A group of teenagers cheat their way through high school.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An underground classic, June 17, 2003

By	Jennifer A. Kern (Ozone Park, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

On the surface, Cheats may look like just another teen movie, but look more clsoely and you'll see why it's becoming a cult classic for people of all ages. The movie follows the lives of four high school students who attempt to cheat their way through high school at any cost. The leader of the pack, Handsome Davis has cheated his way through school even since Kindergarten, and now has it down to a science. The boys have a janitor's key, which makes it easy to break into any classroom and steal every exam. but what happens when the principal catches on and changes the locks? The boys are determined to pull off a huge cheat in order to show others in the school that they are still the Kings of cheating. What ensues is a brilliant, bizairre and completely hilarious romp through what these teens hope will be their final year of high school. The genius of the movie is matched in its characters. Handsome Davis, the leader of the pack, who will not back down, refuses and study and will go to any length to pass the tests he deems "unpassable" (all of them). His best friend Sammy, a fellow cheater since Kindergarten, who decides he wants to go legit, Applebee, the invaluable "kid who writes crazy small" and Victor, a particularly incendiary teen who stops at nothing (even forgoing human decency) to continue cheat will delight you with their sharp wit and sense of mischief. You can't help but feel a slight sense of envy for these boys who can get away with anything, and you'll love finding out what happens when they don't.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VERY FUNNY, February 18, 2003

By A Customer

the editorial review has a point, but overall the movie is quite funny. all of the characters are well thought out and colorful, especially handsome. before you buy it, i would recomend renting it. because it may not be for all people.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Crippled elves do dance around a devil covered by blue dress, dairy causes diarrhea, chunky, creamy, butter cheese, June 4, 2008

By	Jason (Backwater, Alabama) - See all my reviews

This story is a basic one. It's about the kids we all knew in school. It's about the three or four schemers who would do anything to shirk responsibility and flout the rules as they cheated their way through classes. If it wasn't a crib-sheet, it was writing on their hands. Maybe it was getting to class early and writing on the desk. We all knew that guy, and in this movie that guy is a master the likes of which we never experienced.

Handsome Davis (Trevor Fehrman) is the leader of a foursome of cheating friends. He's a charismatic figure who has been cheating with one friend, Sammy, since Kindergarten, and has picked up two accomplices in High School, Victor and Applebee (who writes crazy small).

They are legendary at school, like Ferris Bueller, and everyone knows of their exploits. But when the principal has a locksmith change the locks on every door in the school, the boys secret weapon, a duplicate janitor's key, becomes a paperweight.

Before the boys move towards graduation, they will find that cheating on everything will require more than they had imagined. They'll have to lie, steal, and trick people into helping them. They'll also learn some harsh lessons about growing up along the way. If it isn't tricking the foreign janitor, or coming up with a ridiculous story about a candy bar alibi, it's some other insane, wacky situation that the boys manage to wiggle out of like Houdini. Watching Handsome play his Physics teacher, the principal, his friends, little kids, and even his own father is hilarious. Fehrman nailed the role with his suave confidence and conniving leadership abilities, a persona that commands more attention than any school administrator, let alone any students who dares consider themselves a peer.

For the final cheat alone, I think this movie is well worth it. Even if the movie teaches an eventual lesson about the perils of cheating, it also happens to teach the viewer something serious, something beneficial. The boys make wonderful use of audio mnemonics to pull off the greatest cheat of all time. It's a great instructional tool for studying, and a technique that should be more widely used throughout academics.