Operation Varsity Blues
2021 · Movie · R · 100 min · ★ 6.8 · 79% critics
This documentary-drama looks past the headlines to examine how a well-connected admissions fixer helped wealthy families game a college system that already favors the privileged. Through reenactments and reported details, it traces the tactics used to bend rules, buy advantages, and keep the scheme running for years.
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Details
- Original title
- Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-03-17
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- Critic score
- 79/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (144 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like true-crime-style breakdowns of real scandals and power, similar to Fyre or Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street; Not for you if you want lots of new revelations or dislike reenactment-heavy storytelling.
Pros: timely real-life scandal; some engaging reenactments; raises big questions | Cons: little new information; can feel repetitive; tone feels biased
Themes
- money laundering
- scandal
- reenactment
- college admission
- academic cheating
Cast & crew
Matthew Modine
as Rick Singer
- RR
Roger Rignack
as John B. Wilson
Jillian Peterson
as Lead FBI Agent
Courtney Rackley
as Jane Buckingham
Wallace Langham
as Gordon Caplan
Josh Stamberg
as Bill McGlashan
Jeff Rector
as Devin Sloane
William-Christopher Stephens
as Rudy Meredith
- CA
Cullen Arbaugh
as Young Rick
Leroy Edwards III
as Athletic Director
Directed by Chris Smith