Movie of the Week - Coin Heist
Alexa: I’m not sure if teen movies were actually better when I was their target audience or if I just look back on them through rose-tinted glasses out of nostalgic fondness. But when I watched Coin Heist, all I could think was, “Back in my day kids in these movies stole the SAT scores and it made way more sense.” (But seriously, the teen heist movie of my youth starred the future Captain America and Black Widow, so it wins by default.) Coin Heist follows four high school students who fit neatly in Breakfast Club-style silos – the movie’s synopsis calls them the hacker, the slacker, the athlete and the perfect student – whose prep school is on the brink of closing after the headmaster allegedly embezzles money from the school’s endowment. So the unlikely friends concoct a plan to break into the U.S. Mint, print a batch of rare coins, smuggle them out and sell them to coin collectors in a bid to earn the money back. With a premise that outlandish, the movie has to have some se...