Coin Heist

Coin Heist
Coin Heist
Directed by	Emily Hagins
Written by	Emily Hagins
Based on	Coin Heist; by Elisa Ludwig
Produced by	T.J. Barrack; Ash Christian; Anne Clements; Marshall Lewy; Claire Skowronek;
Starring	Sasha Pieterse; ; Alex Saxon; ; Neal Huff; Michael Cyril Creighton; Mark Blum;
Cinematography	Noah Greenberg
Edited by	William Paley
Music by	Jeremy William Smith
Production; company	Adaptive Studios
Distributed by	Netflix
Release date	January 6, 2017;
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Coin Heist is a 2017 American crime drama film written and directed by Emily Hagins and based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Elisa Ludwig.^[1] The film stars Sasha Pieterse, , Alex Saxon, and Connor Ratliff. It was released on Netflix on January 6, 2017.

In the film, a group of students tries to raise money for their school by breaking into a mint and creating a limited edition run of coins to sell to collectors.^[2]

Plot[]

At Dennington Prep school, four initially non-connected students band together to recover some of the $10 million in funds that were embezzled from the school's coffers. Alice, as she's a skilled hacker, approaches Jason, son of the headmaster (accused of mishandling the funds) with the idea to create their own slightly altered Michigan state quarters, worth $5,000 each. She was inspired during their recent class trip to the mint. They enlist mechanical help from Benny, a football scholarship student who helps in his uncle's garage, and Dakota, Jason's bossy ex-girlfriend, who is incredibly organised.

Dakota gets the team into the Mint by first sweet-talking the guards, posing as a reporter to distract the manager. Alice hacks the security system through the mint's computer, while the guys work on how to create a slightly altered dye. Everything seems to be coming together, when they have a big falling out. They are forced to follow through when Alice hacks the Mint's website, giving them Saturday, the night of the formal, to mint the coins. Jason and Dakota prepare to play the music, while Alice and Benny go to mint the quarters. They have a double glitch, accidentally producing 10 times the amount needed, and not actually cancelling the real maintenance truck. Jason and Dakota come to their aide.

They seem to have gotten away with it, but their art teacher discovers their heist. Bringing them before the president of the school board, who was incidentally the culprit for the missing $10 million, they offer him the valuable coins in exchange for returning the money to the school's endowment and their immunity. The film ends with Dakota proposing that Benny and she try a relationship and Jason the same to Alice, but with him at a normal high school.

Cast[]

Sasha Pieterse as Dakota Cunningham
as Alice Drake
Alex Saxon as Jason Hodges
as Benny
Michael Cyril Creighton as Mr. Rankin, Art and Designs teacher
Zach Broussard as Tony
Craig Walker as Nico
Connor Ratliff as Mr. Garcia
Slate Holmgren as Horace
Will Denton as Dylan
David W. Thompson as Greg
Mark Blum as Mr. Smerconish, President of the Board
Olivia Birkelund as Mrs. Hodges

References[]

^ Topacio, Stephanie (7 December 2016). "Teens Plan a Strange Crime in Netflix's 'Coin Heist' Trailer". Digital Trends. Retrieved 2016-12-10.
^ Wolfe, April (30 January 2017). "Coin Heist's Emily Hagins Isn't a "Girl Director" — She's a Filmmaker".

External links[]

Coin Heist at IMDb
Coin Heist at Rotten Tomatoes

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[1] Topacio, Stephanie (7 December 2016). "Teens Plan a Strange Crime in Netflix's 'Coin Heist' Trailer". Digital Trends. Retrieved 2016-12-10.

[2] Wolfe, April (30 January 2017). "Coin Heist's Emily Hagins Isn't a "Girl Director" — She's a Filmmaker".

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