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Similarities To The Honor Roll Murder
It's been pointed out that there are stark similarities to the Honor Roll Murder where an Honor roll student, Stuart Tay, was murdered and buried in a Buena Park back yard. Similar to the film, four teen-agers were involved, and were all charged with murder in the death of Stuart Tay. The names of the accused were: Robert Chien-nan Chan, Mun Bong Kang, Kirn Kim, and Abraham Acosta. A fifth student, Charles Bae Choe, pleaded guilty to a role in the slaying and acted as a key prosecution witness, claiming that Chan and Acosta beat Stuart Tay with a Sledgehammer and baseball bats.

One of the killers, Robert Chan, was a senior in the running for class valedictorian and had applied to Princeton University similar to Ben Manibag's character in the film. Also similar was speculation of the Tay Family's private investigator suggesting the murder was influenced in part because "(Stuart Tay) was dating a girl who had (rejected) one of the suspects (Robert Chan)." . This girl was a cheerleader similar to Stephanie Vandergosh's character in the movie.