Help Save Assassination Of A High School President From Going Direct To Dvd

Help Save Assassination Of A High School President From Going Direct To DVD

By Peter Sciretta/March 12, 2009 8:27 pm EST

Why should you care about this movie? Here is what some other people have said about the film:

Many people have drawn comparisons between this film and Rian Johnson’s indie masterpiece Brick, and it would be hard not to. As I wrote in my original Sundance review “Assassination is not a copy of Brick, in fact, it was written before Brick. Imagine if John Hughes had made Chinatown set in a High School. So where Brick was a hardcore film noir story set in the world of high school students, Assassination is a high school movie with a noir mystery storyline.” I always thought of it as a more accessible, more marketable film…