The Perfect Score

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

27K

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Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Greenberg, Darius Miles, and Leonardo Nam in The Perfect Score (2004)

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Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

27K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

User reviews103

Featured review

6/10

Better than expected

The Perfect Score is one of those movies you would expect to be incredibly stupid. The premise is absurd: kids try to steal the answers to the SAT. However, I found myself enjoying this movie. The characters are likable and have good reason to cross the line to cheat on the SAT. I especially enjoy Erika Christenson (who I didn't recognize from her work in Traffic and Swimfam) as the girl who needs a high SAT score to get into Brown University. This movie shows the pressure that high school students have on standardized testing in general. Their grades may be good, but without a good score on this one test makes the difference in what college they can get into. I was not a fan of standardized tests in high school and I do not like them now. I think that dislike of these tests adds to the appeal the movie. I give this movie a 6/10. It is worth 90 minutes of your time.

jpintar
Jul 27, 2004
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Trivia
The first of seven films that Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson star in together.

Goofs
The cheat sheets the kids made only had the letter answers. The SAT uses many different forms with both a different order of questions and a different order of answers. So the cheat sheets would have been useless.

Quotes
Roy: [going through SAT questions] You know, a lot of people would think these questions are difficult... not me.
Desmond Rhodes: No?
Roy: No. These questions all have answers.

Connections
Featured in Brainwashed: Le sexisme au cinéma (2022)

Soundtracks
Everything
by Fefe Dobson, Jason Levine and James McCollum
Performed by Fefe Dobson
Courtesy of The Island Def Jam Music Group
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises