**SPOILER ALERT** Having made a big splash at the 2008 Sundance Film Festivle the movie "Assasination of a High School President" was slated to be released in the late winter or early spring of 2009. Only to be put on the back burner when the company that made in went bankrupt. Now available on DVD we can finally see what the big fuss was all about.
School newspaperman Bobby Funke, Reece Thompson, was the butt off all jokes by the students at St. Donovan High until he broke the story to who broke into Principal Kirkpatrick's, Bruce Willis, office and stole all the SAT tests. As it turned out the culprit was non other then St. Donovan's star basketball player and student president Paul Moore, Patrick Taylor. Overnight Bobby became the most popular kid in school with even the hottest and brightest girl at St, Donovan, Paul Moore's former girlfriend, Francesca Fachini, Mischa Barton, dying to get Bobby to jump into the sack-or bathtub-with her!
As Bobby was basking in his new fond popularity he started to have doubts about Paul's guilt. Everything about Paul risking everything in stealing the SAT tests just didn't make any sense to him. It seemed to Bobby that Paul was either blackmailed or tricked into committing that dastardly crime by someone who knew about his dark past. When Paul threw a number of basketball games by shaving points for reasons known only to himself and the bookie he threw the games for Freddy Bismark, Adam Pally. As Bobby started to investigate farther his worst suspicions became realities. Even worse Bobby also discovered that he himself was being set up as a pasty by those who framed Paul to take the fall for them if the truth was ever to come out!
***SPOILERS***Nice detective work on Bobby's part has him break the case of the stolen SAT tests but almost at the cost of his life. The stolen SAT's was really a diversionary action by those who set Paul up in a much bigger crime that they were in the process of committing; Embezzling the high school student treasury as well as dealing drugs on campus! It's when Bobby's life was on the line, in him being kidnapped and threatened with being thrown out of a sixth floor window, that the roof fell in on his potential murderers!***MAJOR SPOILER***They as bright as they were never expected he would have alerted the local authorities as well as Principal Kirkpatrick to who they were what they did and where they'll be at the time he was to confront them!
School newspaperman Bobby Funke, Reece Thompson, was the butt off all jokes by the students at St. Donovan High until he broke the story to who broke into Principal Kirkpatrick's, Bruce Willis, office and stole all the SAT tests. As it turned out the culprit was non other then St. Donovan's star basketball player and student president Paul Moore, Patrick Taylor. Overnight Bobby became the most popular kid in school with even the hottest and brightest girl at St, Donovan, Paul Moore's former girlfriend, Francesca Fachini, Mischa Barton, dying to get Bobby to jump into the sack-or bathtub-with her!
As Bobby was basking in his new fond popularity he started to have doubts about Paul's guilt. Everything about Paul risking everything in stealing the SAT tests just didn't make any sense to him. It seemed to Bobby that Paul was either blackmailed or tricked into committing that dastardly crime by someone who knew about his dark past. When Paul threw a number of basketball games by shaving points for reasons known only to himself and the bookie he threw the games for Freddy Bismark, Adam Pally. As Bobby started to investigate farther his worst suspicions became realities. Even worse Bobby also discovered that he himself was being set up as a pasty by those who framed Paul to take the fall for them if the truth was ever to come out!
***SPOILERS***Nice detective work on Bobby's part has him break the case of the stolen SAT tests but almost at the cost of his life. The stolen SAT's was really a diversionary action by those who set Paul up in a much bigger crime that they were in the process of committing; Embezzling the high school student treasury as well as dealing drugs on campus! It's when Bobby's life was on the line, in him being kidnapped and threatened with being thrown out of a sixth floor window, that the roof fell in on his potential murderers!***MAJOR SPOILER***They as bright as they were never expected he would have alerted the local authorities as well as Principal Kirkpatrick to who they were what they did and where they'll be at the time he was to confront them!