''Coin Heist'' is a 2017 American

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written and directed by

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and based on the young-adult novel of the same name by Elisa Ludwig. The film stars

Sasha Pieterse Sasha Pieterse-Sheaffer (; born February 17, 1996) is a South African-born American actress, singer and songwriter. She is known for her role as Alison DiLaurentis in the Freeform series ''Pretty Little Liars'' and its spin-off '' Pretty Little ...

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, Alex Saxon, Jay Walker and Connor Ratliff. It was released on

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on January 6, 2017. In the film, a group of students tries to raise money for their school by breaking into a

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and creating a limited edition run of coins to sell to collectors.

Plot

At Dennington Prep school, four initially non-connected students band together to recover some of the $10 million in funds that were

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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 die. 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

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, 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

as Dakota Cunningham *

as Alice Drake * Alex Saxon as Jason Hodges * Jay Walker as Benny *

Michael Cyril Creighton Michael Cyril Creighton is an American actor and writer best known for his portrayal of Howard Morris in ''Only Murders in the Building'', Patrick in ''High Maintenance'', Joe Crowley in ''Spotlight'' and his Writers Guild of America Award-winni ...

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 David William Thompson (born July 21, 1994) is an American actor known for ''Win Win (film), Win Win'' (2011), ''Blue Ruin'' (2013) and ''Green Room (film), Green Room'' (2015). He plays Scarecrow (DC Comics), Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow in the Fo ...

as Greg *

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as Mr. Smerconish, President of the Board *

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as Mrs. Hodges

References

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* * 2010s heist films 2017 films American crime drama films American heist films Films based on American crime novels Films based on young adult literature Films shot in New York (state) English-language Netflix original films 2010s English-language films 2010s American films {{2010s-crime-film-stub