Masterminds

Aug 22, 1997

1h 46m

★ 5.3

He's a teenage one-man army... and he doesn't have a hall pass!

Overview

A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.

Genres

Comedy

Action

Thriller

Adventure

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

Dunlevy Pictures

Pacific Motion Pictures

Triumph Films

Masterminds Trailers

Cast

Rafe Bentley

Patrick Stewart

Oswald 'Ozzie' Paxton

Vincent Kartheiser

Principal Claire Maloney

Brenda Fricker

Miles Lawrence

Bradley Whitford

Jake Paxton

Matt Craven

Helen Randall Paxton

Annabelle Gurwitch

Richard 'K-Dog'

Jon Abrahams

Melissa Randall

Katie Stuart

Foster Deroy

Michael MacRae

Ollie

Callum Keith Rennie

Captain Jankel

Earl Pastko

Marvin

Jason Schombing

Yannick moves to a small, quiet town to study cinema. One day when he fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jacques Beaulieu and his family had other plans for Yannick. Beaulieu is a righteous psychopath and fanatic chess player who wants to rid the world of evil. And even though Ian has done nothing wrong, he is beaten, tortured and tormented before Beaulieu makes him an offer: win at chess and he is free to go. And so Ian is now a pawn in Beaulieu 's game. A game in which he will either lose his mind or his life.

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