My wife and I watched this movie on Netflix streaming. It is definitely a "made for TV movie", looks like one and sounds like one, with a cast of mostly TV actors. It has a low rating, mostly deserved, but can be a fun viewing if one is in the right frame of mind. IOW, don't expect too much and look for the fun in it.
Filmed in New York locations but set in Philadelphia, the main plot requires a group of 4 students to team up to sneak into the Philadelphia Mint, alter a coin die for making quarters, hack into the control system to fabricate a few thousand coins with "errors" - an extra fin on a fish - and get out safely with the altered coins. Thinking they could eventually sell them at a big profit to coin collectors and re-fund the cancelled activities at school.
So that is all very implausible and unlikely that school kids could do that and get away with it. So we have to look a bit deeper, to the relationships the kids develop with each other, interactions with the teachers and administration, and the other kids who are oblivious to the plan.
I am glad we watched it, even with its limitations it is more fun than all the shooting, stealing, cheating, cursing movies that are typically being made.
Filmed in New York locations but set in Philadelphia, the main plot requires a group of 4 students to team up to sneak into the Philadelphia Mint, alter a coin die for making quarters, hack into the control system to fabricate a few thousand coins with "errors" - an extra fin on a fish - and get out safely with the altered coins. Thinking they could eventually sell them at a big profit to coin collectors and re-fund the cancelled activities at school.
So that is all very implausible and unlikely that school kids could do that and get away with it. So we have to look a bit deeper, to the relationships the kids develop with each other, interactions with the teachers and administration, and the other kids who are oblivious to the plan.
I am glad we watched it, even with its limitations it is more fun than all the shooting, stealing, cheating, cursing movies that are typically being made.