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Plot Synopsis

Masterminds is about a young prankster/hacker named Oswald "Ozzie" Paxton (played by Vincent Kartheiser), who has an unhappy relationship with his parents (due mostly to his hacking and troublemaking). Vincent Paul Kartheiser (born May 5, 1979) is an American actor. ...

Forced to take his sister to school as punishment for being caught in a highly illegal hack, 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. Patrick Stewart OBE (born July 13, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated English film, television and stage actor. ...

It turns out that the hostages are all children of wealthy families, and Bentley has long been in the planning stages of a ransom scheme involving their parents' corporations. Ozzie, re-entering the school via a long-disused-and-boarded-up room, quickly becomes a one-man army, using his knowledge of computers and practical jokes to resuce the hostages, and make himself Bentley's personal nightmare.

Ozzie's nemesis, Principal Maloney, is taken by Bentley in his last-ditch effort to escape through the school's disused heating tunnels , but Bentley just as quickly lets her go when it's clear that she's not going to come willingly. Soon afterward, Bentley sees the proverbial 'light at the end of the tunnel', only to discover that the light leads only one place: a sewage reclamation plant.

The film can been considered a "teen" version of Die Hard, due to similar plot lines. This article is about the 1988 action film. ...

References and notes

External link

• Masterminds at the Internet Movie Database.