Avatar of Intrigue.

Nominated for 2 Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor and winning a special ensemble Golden Globe for Short Cuts, Matthew Modine has worked with many of the film industry's most respected directors, including Oliver Stone, Sir Alan Parker, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Alan J. Pakula, John Schlesinger, Tony Richardson, Robert Falls, Sir Peter Hall, Abel Ferrara, Spike Lee, Tom DiCillo, Mike Figgis, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and Christopher Nolan. His iconic roles as Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket, the title character in Birdy, high school wrestler Louden Swain in Vision Quest, oversexed Sullivan Groff on Weeds, and Dr. Martin Brenner in the Netflix global phenomenon Stranger Things have cemented his legacy as an avatar of intrigue.

Dr. Martin Brenner

ILLUSTRATION KYLE LAMBERT

Eleven, are you listening?

Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admission Scandal Starring Matthew Modine as Rick Singer now streaming on Netflix. An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Rick Singer, the man at the center of the shocking 2019 college admissions scandal, to persuade his wealthy clients to cheat an educational system already designed to benefit the privileged. Using an innovative combination of interviews and narrative recreations of the FBI’s wiretapped conversations between Singer and his clients, Operation Varsity Blues offers a rare glimpse into the enigmatic figure behind a scheme that exposed the lengths wealthy families would go to for admission into elite colleges, and angered a nation already grappling with the effects of widespread inequality. From Chris Smith, Executive Director of Tiger King, and Jon Karmen, the filmmakers behind Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. ​

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