Masterminds (film)

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Masterminds
Directed by	Roger Christian
Produced by	Floyd Byars Robert Franklin Dudelson
Written by	Floyd Byars & Alex Siskin & Chris Black (story) Floyd Byars (screenplay
Starring	Patrick Stewart Vincent Kartheiser Brenda Fricker Bradley Whitford Matt Craven Annabelle Gurwitch Jon Abrahams Katie Stuart
Music by	Anthony Marinelli
Cinematography	Nic Morris
Editing by	Robin Russell
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date(s)	August 22, 1997 (USA)
Running time	106 min.
Language	English
Budget	Unknown
IMDb profile

Masterminds is a 1997 comedy action film starring Patrick Stewart. Masterminds is about a young prankster/hacker named Oswald "Ozzie" Paxton (played by Vincent Kartheiser), who has an unahppy relationship with his parents (due mostly to his hacking and troublemaking). Forced to take his sister to school, Ozzie finds that former-school-employee-turned-security-officer Rafe Bentley (Patrick Stewart) has taken hostages in a ransom demand. Ozzie, having accomplished his assigned task, leaves the school, but becomes the sole hope of the hostages when his sister is taken as an insurance measure by the security officer.

Assisted by his friend K-Dog on the outside, and his own working knowledge of computers and pranks on the inside, Ozzie Paxton becomes determined to make himself Bentley's worst nightmare.

[edit] Trivia

Tagline: The criminal mastermind of the century just met his match...
This film's working title was Smart Alec.
When Patrick Stewart's character makes his first appearance, he asks Principal Maloney to call him by his first name, "Rafe," to which she immediately replies "Fine." This is a reference to the actor Ralph Fiennes, whose name is pronounced "Rafe Fine."
For all intents and purposes, the film is an all ages remake of Die Hard sharing many story similarities and plot points.