Slap Her, She's French! (2002)

A French foreign-exchange student comes to a small Texas high school, befriends a classmate, and practically takes over her life.

Director:

Melanie Mayron

Writers:

Lamar Damon, Robert Lee King

Stars:

Piper Perabo, Jane McGregor, Michael McKean

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Piper Perabo	...	Genevieve Le Plouff
Jane McGregor	...	Starla Grady
Trent Ford	...	Ed Mitchell
Julie White	...	Bootsie Grady
Brandon Smith	...	Arnie Grady
Jesse James	...	Randolph Grady
Nicki Aycox	...	Tanner Jennings
Alexandra Adi	...	Ashley Lopez
Matt Czuchry	...	Kyle Fuller
Cristen Coppen	...	Doreen Gilmore
Michael McKean	...	Monsieur Duke
Mary Portser	...	Kimmy Sue Sprinkle
Katherine Cortez	...	Lurlene Haskell
Jerry Cotton	...	Sheriff Flinkman
Kirk Sisco	...	News Contest Judge

Storyline

A French foreign exchange student, named Genevieve, comes to a small town in Texas to attend a local high school where she shacks up with the school's popular head cheerleader, Starla, and her parents. But Starla soon learns that this French girl is not only smart, attractive, and naive, but quite conniving when Geneviere, with no social life of her own, begins to take over Starla's, starting with stealing the affections her parents, her friends and Starla's boyfriend. When Starla is forced to quit the cheerleading squad after getting some bad grads, Genevieve moves in to take her place. When Starla figures out that Genevieve deliberately set it up by giving her bad tutoring to fail all those classes, she begins an all-out personal war against Genevieve to take back her social life. But Genevieve is anticipating exactly that type of response from Starla and soon turns everyone, including Starla's friends and family, against her by playing the poor victim and making it appear that ...

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Plot Keywords:

cool | 2000s | french woman abroad | french abroad | french girl abroad | 

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Taglines:

A high school comedy with a French twist

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sex-related humor, drug content and language

Details

Country:

Germany UK USA

Language:

English French Spanish Italian

Release Date:

7 February 2002 (Germany)

Also Known As:

She Gets What She Wants

Filming Locations:

Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,789,525

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bandeira Entertainment, Constantin Film, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 2. Produktions KG

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 84 min (TV)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The scenes at Splendona High School stadium were filmed at The Colony High School stadium in January, which is why every person in the stadium appears to be bundled up in winter clothes.

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Goofs

The Texas "No Pass No Play" rule is enforced only at the end of each 6 week period, not at the moment the grade falls below passing. Starla would have been allowed the remainder of the 6 week period to get her grades up before being suspended from the cheerleading squad.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Starla Grady: [in a jail cell; voice-over] We're all capable of doing bad things. Lord knows I've done my share. Things I'm truly ashamed of. But should my life, so young and full of sweet promise, be tragically cut down before it ever had a chance to shine? If I ever get out of her, as God is my witness, somebody's gonna pay. Or as the great German philosopher Fred Nitsche once said: "that which does not kill us, is gonna wish it had," because we are about to Fed ex it's sorry ass back to skank ...

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Crazy Credits

No French people were harmed during the making of this film.

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Alternate Versions

The USA DVD version runs 88 minutes which is shorter than the original version. The TV network version, although edited with some scenes cut, has additional scenes and extended scenes which include a longer version of the opening 'Beef' beauty pa gent with the dance interrupted by Doreen protesting beef, as well as extended dressing room scenes between Starla, Ashley and Tanner. Also cut from the DVD is the part of Kimmy Sue introducing Tanner, the beauty finalist, first ahead of Ashley who mumbles her response to the questions. An extended scene of Starla talking to Geneieve in her bedroom about her desire to become a TV star.

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Connections

References Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

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Soundtracks

The Beef Song
Written by Christophe Beck
Performed by Elin Carlson

User Reviews

Is this racist?

Just finished watching the film, this movie sucked almost as bad as the title, but a thought suddenly struck me, what would have happened if they had called the film "Slap Her, She's black"? or "Slap Her, She's Muslim"? or "Slap Her, She's Not American" (heaven forbid). Now I am not black, or Muslim, definately not French. I am a white Englishman, a Yorkshireman, religion-less (if that is a word) but perhaps that's just me. Avoid.