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Jawbreaker (1999) -- Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jaw-breaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong.

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4.7/10   8,793 votes
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Writer:
Darren Stein (writer)
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Release Date:
19 February 1999 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The sweetest candies are sour as death inside. more
Plot:
Three of the most popular girls at Reagan High accidentally kill the prom queen with a jaw-breaker when a kidnapping goes horribly wrong. full summary | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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Nice enough more (180 total)

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MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality, language and violence, all involving teens.
Runtime:
87 min | Germany:78 min | Argentina:96 min
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Writer/director Darren Stein intentionally cast older actresses as the high school leads as an homage to films like Grease (1978) and Carrie (1976), which seemed to use actresses who were clearly in their mid-twenties. more
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Continuity: When Fern and Courtney are talking about Fern's new name, Fern's Diet Coke jumps back and forth from her hand to the table between cuts. more
Quotes:
[Julie Freeman approaches Courtney Shayne and Marcie Fox]
Courtney: Look what the kitty dragged in.
Marcie: Meow.
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3 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Nice enough, 12 December 2001
Author: Alex-372 from The Hague, The Netherlands

This is a pretty nice morality tale, in the tradition of Cary, as much as Clueless and Heathers. It's not without problems (the leads are about a decade too old to be in High School), but it does have a lot of pretty good one-liners ("She's Evil! And she's hasn't even graduated high school yet!"). Pretty fun, especially if you like Rose McGowan and Rebecca Gayheart.

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What is funny about teenagers getting killed? znmo
courtney kinda sort of really did mean to kill liz joanna164
Ever have someone die in your high school? down-2-earth
What we learn from 'Jawbreaker': gothic_shila
COMPLETE SONG LIST... Fritoz1447
Is that you, young Wilson? (Robert Sean Leonard) dead_pinklet
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