Comedy, Crime, TV Movie  •  2014  •  92 min  •  All Ages

Swindle (2014)

Swindle poster

Swindle (2014)


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Gender Swap: Yes
Family Values: Mixed

Viewer Rating
6.6

Overview

Swindle is a 2014 Nickelodeon TV movie about a group of kids who pull off a heist to recover a valuable baseball card after a shady dealer swindles one of them out of a fortune. Based on Gordon Korman's novel, it lands a Neutral label because its signals largely cancel out or stay quiet. The film carries a diverse cast and swaps one character's gender from the source novel, both mild progressive markers. Against that, the story leans on friendship and fair play without any political or ideological framing. Religion, LGBTQ themes, and family structure commentary are all absent. The result is a breezy, G-rated kids' caper with nothing particularly charged to weigh.


Starring Cast

Jennette McCurdy  •   Noah Crawford  •   Chris O'Neal


Where to watch

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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Center

Primary

Political: Center
Confidence: High

The film focuses on universal themes of friendship, justice, and clever problem-solving to rectify an individual wrong, rather than promoting a specific political ideology or engaging with broader societal critiques.

Diversity: Moderate
Confidence: High

The movie features visible diversity within its main cast, including prominent minority actors, but does not appear to involve explicit racial or gender recasting of traditionally white roles. The narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, consistent with its family-friendly adventure genre, and does not present explicit critiques of these identities.

Secondary

Gender Swap: Yes
Confidence: Medium

The film is an adaptation of a novel where the character Logan Applebaum was canonically male. In the screen adaptation, this character is portrayed as female.

Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Low

The movie features families as background elements for its child protagonists, but it does not deeply explore or endorse specific family structures, roles, or values. Parental authority is present but often circumvented by the children for the plot's progression, without explicit critique or celebration of either traditional or progressive norms.

LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High

The film "Swindle, 2014" does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes within its narrative. The plot focuses on a group of teenagers executing a heist, and no elements related to queer identity are present or explored.

Trans: N/A
Confidence: High

The film 'Swindle, 2014' does not feature any identifiable transgender characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a group of teenagers executing a heist to recover a stolen baseball card, with no elements pertaining to gender identity or transsexual experiences.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium

The film is an adaptation of a novel where the race of its characters, including Darren Vader, was not explicitly specified or visually established in the source material. Therefore, the casting of actors of different races for these roles does not constitute a race swap under the given definition.

Hinduism: N/A
Confidence: High

Not depicted in the film.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

6.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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6.2
The Movie Database logo
7.0

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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