A popular high-school cheerleader becomes pregnant by the star quarterback and turns to crime to support her desired lifestyle.
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Francine McDougallWriter:
Mandy Nelson
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Marla Sokoloff | ... | Lisa Janusch | |
| Marley Shelton | ... | Diane Weston | |
| Melissa George | ... | Cleo Miller | |
| Mena Suvari | ... | Kansas Hill | |
| Rachel Blanchard | ... | Hannah Wald | |
| Alexandra Holden | ... | Fern Rogers | |
| Sara Marsh | ... | Lucy Whitman | |
| James Marsden | ... | Jack Bartlett | |
| Sean Young | ... | Mrs. Hill | |
| W. Earl Brown | ... | Hank 'Terminator' Rogers | |
| Adam Busch | ... | Geeky Guy | |
| Jake Hoffman | ... | Ted | |
| Nate Maher | ... | Chris | |
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David Belenky | ... | Bruce |
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Kevin Kling | ... | Factory Worker |
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Jack and Diane were lovers, two crazy kids living in the heartlands. Airheaded Diane captains the cheerleading squad, who follow her through whatever she does. Jack is, of course, the football team's star quarterback. When Diane becomes pregnant, the two are thrown out of their homes and move into an apartment where they try to live on Jack's part-time salary from clerking at a video store. Meanwhile both continue in school - cheerleading and quarterbacking. When Diane realizes that they're not making it financially, she recruits the other cheerleaders to help her rob a bank. Their cheerleader oath of all for one commits them to helping her. A local hood gives them guns in exchange for their promise to put his homely daughter on the cheerleading squad. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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generation y | seductive behavior | attempted seduction | cheerleader | quarterback |Taglines:
Get ready to cheer for the _bad_ girls. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for language, sex-related humor and some thematic elements | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
26 January 2001 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Sugar and Spice and Semiautomatics See more »Edit
Box Office
Budget:
$11,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend USA:
$5,891,176, 28 January 2001, Wide ReleaseGross USA:
$13,276,953, 4 March 2001Company Credits
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2.39 : 1
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Dianne's Mom: I'm DeeDee. You can remember me because of my double D's!
Dianne's Dad: Honey, don't show them those!
[to Jack's parents]
Dianne's Dad: And I'm Dianne's dad, Dennis. Now, don't try that after one of my screw-drivers.
Dianne's Mom: Say, who wants pigs-in-a-blanket?
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Trivia
The premiere of the movie was held in Minnesota, where the movie was filmed. The entire audience was given Betty Doll masks, like the ones the girls used to rob the bank in the movie. See more »Goofs
The shot of Eric Karros hitting the home run takes place in Shea Stadium in New York but the ball lands in the bleacher seats in Wrigley Field in Chicago. See more »Quotes
[overly hyper]Dianne's Mom: I'm DeeDee. You can remember me because of my double D's!
Dianne's Dad: Honey, don't show them those!
[to Jack's parents]
Dianne's Dad: And I'm Dianne's dad, Dennis. Now, don't try that after one of my screw-drivers.
Dianne's Mom: Say, who wants pigs-in-a-blanket?
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This is a smart movie about dumb people but don't let that get in the way of your enjoying it.
There are a lot of laugh-out-loud situations in this short (less than 90 minutes by my watch) film. The whole situation is laughable when the team captain of the `A-Squad' cheerleaders at Lincoln High School is pregnant and what she does to make the situation more livable.
James Marsden (Scott Summers/Cyclops in `X-Men') is the too-good-to-be-true boyfriend of Marley Shelton (Diane Weston in the film) whose innocence, sweetness and naivety makes you want to believe that there really are people like that in the real world.
Mena Suvari (late of both `American Beauty' and `American `Pie') is a study in contrasts as the girl that `was born in prison.'
There has been a spate of cheerleader movies this last year but this one owes much more to `But I'm A Cheerleader' than it does to `Bring It On.' There is a tension and sense of surrealism that isn't in `Bring It On.'
When all the cheer leaders don their `Betty' masks it becomes very surrealistic almost spooky.
There is no big opening to this film: just an introduction to the characters; but there is a nice end to the film explaining what happens to the major characters after the end of the film.
I enjoyed this film much more than I thought I would give it a chance you may enjoy it too.