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Apr 19, 2020 · No, the HBO movie is based on a New York Magazine article by Robert Kolker. While researching the Bad Education fact vs. fiction, we learned that the screenplay for the film was written by a former Roslyn student, Mike Makowsky, who was a pupil in the district at the time of the scandal.
Apr 24, 2020 · Based on a true story reported in New York Magazine and adapted by screenwriter Mike Makowsky, who was a Roslyn middle-schooler when the scandal broke, the film rollickingly details Tassone’s...
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Apr 30, 2020 · Bad Education is based on a New York magazine story by reporter Robert Kolker, and for the most part the film is relatively faithful to its source material. Yet there are a few key...
Apr 29, 2020 · Over the weekend, HBO released Bad Education, a Hugh Jackman -led film about a real life school scandal that took place nearly two decades ago in an affluent suburb of Long Island.
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May 12, 2024 · Based upon aa 2004 New York Magazine article by Robert Kolker with a story as true as it was shocking, the film Bad Education details the discovery of the largest embezzlement scandal...
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May 13, 2020 · Remarkably, this is true of the real case. While the story was picked up by the big national papers and the movie itself is based on an article in the New York Magazine, the school newspaper, the Hilltop Beacon, broke it first.
Apr 26, 2020 · In Bad Education, Frank strikes up a romantic relationship with Kyle Contreras (Rafael Casal), a Las Vegas bartender and exotic dancer whom Frank taught in his English class 16 years previously. Kyle is based on a real person, Jason Daugherty, and Frank really did end up buying a house with him.