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80 minutes [1] Country. Ireland. How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate is a 1997 independent Irish film directed by Graham Jones, in which six teenagers devise a plan to cheat in their Leaving Certificate final school examinations. The film was shot in black and white on Super 16mm and was later blown up to 35mm for theatrical distribution.
"At last a young Irish film director gives us what we want... The wet dream of generations of dossers and mitchers"-dSIDE MAGAZINE"A neat, tense, low-budget ...
- 77 min
- 40.9K
- Graham Jones
Aug 17, 1997 · How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate Production: A Graham Jones production. Produced by Jones, Ciara Flanagan. Directed by Graham Jones. Screenplay, Jones, Tadhg O'Higgins, story by Jones ...
- Emanuel Levy
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate: Directed by Graham Jones. With Eamon Morrissey, Aileen O'Connor, Garret Baker, Lee Dunne. "How to cheat the Leaving Certificate ?"
- (74)
- Comedy, Drama
- Graham Jones
- 1998-04-17
Nov 18, 2012 · Shot during the summer of 1996 and showing the last school year (culminating in the middle of 1997) at James Joyce College in Dublin, the film quickly assembles a group of characters who want to beat the system by cheating on the big school-leaving exam called the leaving certificate or just “leaving cert”.
Despite the black and white style, this movie was released in 1998, just a year after I graduated high school. Prior to watching this movie, I’d never heard of a Leaving Certificate. I asked an Irish friend about the certificate, and he informed me that it’s one of the most important standardized tests an Irish student takes.
How To Cheat In The Leaving Certificate is an enjoyable movie, but it is still an amateur film which moves fast, hits hard and moves on before you get a chance to question it very closely. Judged by the standards of professionally made films like The Butcher Boy , Guiltrip and Nothing Personal , it hasn't a chance; nor is it meant to.
