Sleepover (2004)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Joe Nussbaum

Writer (WGA):

Elisa Bell (written by)

Release Date:

9 July 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The rules are set. The game is on.

Plot:

Four best friends, desperate to improve their social status, enter into an all-night scavenger hunt against the popular clique in their school.

Plot Keywords:

Scavenger Hunt | High School | Best Friend | Party | Slumber Party

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

Alexa Vega	...	Julie Corky
Mika Boorem	...	Hannah
Scout Taylor-Compton	...	Farrah
Kallie Flynn Childress	...	Yancy
Sara Paxton	...	Stacie
Brie Larson	...	Liz
Sam Huntington	...	Ren Corky
Sean Faris	...	Steve Phillips
Jane Lynch	...	Gabby Corky
Jeff Garlin	...	Jay Corky
Steve Carell	...	Officer Sherman
Evan Peters	...	Russell
Hunter Parrish	...	Lance
Shane Hunter	...	Miles
Thad Luckinbill	...	Todd

MPAA:

Rated PG thematic elements involving teen dating, some sensuality and language.

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Brazil:12 | South Korea:12 | Netherlands:AL | Canada:G (British Columbia/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/Manitoba/Nova Scotia) | France:U | USA:PG (certificate #40365) | New Zealand:G | Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Finland:S | Germany:6 | Ireland:PG | Singapore:PG | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Long Beach Polytechnic High School - 1600 Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

The electric car driven by Yancy is a Nissan Hypermini.

Goofs:

Continuity: As Julie is climbing onto the roof we see her go all the way in the house when it changes to show her dad taking the ladder. Ments later we see her stuck on a nail.

Quotes:

Ren Corky: Someone stole my bike.
Hannah: What happened to his car?
Julie Corky: Repossessed. We're all so proud.

Movie Connections:

References Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

Soundtrack:

Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Oh My God...

I was recently sick with the flu and unable to move from the bed and because the movie channel repeats movies a certain amount of times in a twenty four hour period I ended up watching this movie 3 times.

It was the worst day of my entire life. If you wanted you could fashion a drinking game out of this movie - take a shot for every teen cliché they try to throw in (it comes to about 1 a minute)There were times when i had to literally squeeze my eyes shut to block out the all the stupidness.

Julie Corky is a fourteen year old girl who is 'blossoming' who complains about how awful her life and parents are because they wont give her a lock for her door, but they will provide her with a big ass house and trips to Hawaii - they're monsters i know. She decides to have a sleepover inviting 3 friends over, the redhead, the blonde and the fat chick thrown in to somehow give confidence to all the other fat chicks out there that they can get guys too, albeit chubby ugly guys while the skinny girls get the male models.

The next minute the popular girl (who wont hook up with her high school aged boyfriend - i thought the whole point to having a boyfriend was so you could hook up with him but whatever) is organising a scavenger hunt and as you can imagine, hijinks ensue.

Well the acting was completely awful, mika boreem who usually does so well is so completely wooden in this movie, Alexa Vega is only mildly attractive and unbelievable in the role of Julie Corky, the underage girl who manages to get the hottest senior in high school (and maybe the world) to like her after skateboarding past him in an unflattering semi squat position. The three skater dudes who so obviously have no idea what acting is, every time they are on screen you experience physical pain at having to watch them try to be funny.

After the scavenger hunt they all end up at the high school dance where Julie tries to inspire the girl taking the tickets to let her in by utterly insulting her - let me paraphrase "I know you, you're the loser who has to sit at the dumpster and no one talks to you cos you're so plain and you're the ticket taker at the dance because no one in their right mind would ever consider being with you. ever and if you don't help me i could end up just. like. you"

However this film had only one true intentionally funny part, when the jerk-for-even-thinking-of-kissing-his-girlfriend high school boyfriend and his new girlfriend are trying to win the dance contest, their slow jerky dance movements were the only bright spot in an otherwise idiotic film.

So potential viewers, stay away for the love of god stay away.