Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
The man behind the scandal.
Synopsis
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.
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Status: Released
Director: Chris Smith
Main Cast
Matthew Modine
Rick Singer
Roger Rignack
John B. Wilson
Jillian Peterson
Lead FBI Agent
Courtney Rackley
Jane Buckingham
Wallace Langham
Gordon Caplan
Josh Stamberg
Bill McGlashan
Jeff Rector
Devin Sloane
William-Christopher Stephens
Rudy Meredith
Cullen Arbaugh
Young Rick
Leroy Edwards III
Athletic Director
Trailer
User 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.
Peter 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.
