Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021)

★ 6.8 1h 40m 144 votes IMDb
Drama Documentary Crime
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An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged.

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal

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Cast

Matthew Modine
Matthew Modine as Rick Singer Age 67 · Loma Linda, California, USA Matthew Avery Modine (born March 22, 1959) is an American actor and filmmaker. He shared the Venice Film Festival's Volpi Cup for Best Actor as part of the ensemble cast of Robert Altman's film Stream...
Jillian Peterson
Jillian Peterson as Lead FBI Agent
Courtney Rackley
Courtney Rackley as Jane Buckingham
Wallace Langham
Wallace Langham as Gordon Caplan Age 61 · Fort Worth, Texas, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Wallace Langham II (born March 11, 1965) is an American actor. He currently plays the role of David Hodges in the American crime drama television series C...
Josh Stamberg
Josh Stamberg as Bill McGlashan Age 56 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA Joshua Collins Stamberg (born January 4, 1970) is an American actor. He was a regular cast member in the Lifetime comedy-drama series Drop Dead Diva from 2009 to 2012 and later had recurring roles on...
Jeff Rector
Jeff Rector as Devin Sloane Age 67 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jeff Rector is an American actor, born in St. Louis, and grew up in both Michigan and California. He decided to pursue an acting career after working at Univers...
Director Chris Smith
Cast Matthew Modine, Roger Rignack, Jillian Peterson, Courtney Rackley, Wallace Langham, Josh Stamberg, Jeff Rector, William-Christopher Stephens, Cullen Arbaugh, Leroy Edwards III

Audience Reviews

rsanek 7/10 Mar 22, 2021
If you've read the news articles about this story, there's not much that this film will reveal to you. Mostly an inoffensive dramatization of what's already been reported. One thing I did take issue with is the way that the piece basically promoted tracking down and searching for the defendants -- it felt like for every single parent, they had a shot of someone typing in their name into Google and looking at some images. Kinda weird.
Peter McGinn 6/10 Jul 23, 2021
I guess this is a good character study of some variation of a psychopath, who lies, cheats, throw people under the bus — whatever it takes to advance their own interests. And the movie provides a peek into how the wealthy care about having the best of everything and knowing they can throw money at any problem to solve them.

Of course, none of these people are presented in a way to make you root for them in any way, so in the end though I thought it was marginally interesting, I thought it was way too long.

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