Rick Singer
Matthew Modine
Rick Singer
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
“The man behind the scandal.”
6.8
2021
1h 40m
DocumentaryCrimeDrama
Director: Chris Smith
Overview
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.
Trailer
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal | Official Trailer | Netflix Official
Cast
John B. Wilson
Roger Rignack
John B. Wilson
Lead FBI Agent
Jillian Peterson
Lead FBI Agent
Jane Buckingham
Courtney Rackley
Jane Buckingham
Gordon Caplan
Wallace Langham
Gordon Caplan
Bill McGlashan
Josh Stamberg
Bill McGlashan
Devin Sloane
Jeff Rector
Devin Sloane
Rudy Meredith
William-Christopher Stephens
Rudy Meredith
Young Rick
Cullen Arbaugh
Young Rick
Athletic Director
Leroy Edwards III
Athletic Director
Bruce Isackson
David Starzyk
Bruce Isackson
Michelle Janavs
Kristen O'Meara
Michelle Janavs
Reviews
rsanek
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.
Read full reviewPeter McGinn
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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