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She Gets What She Wants (2002)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:9
Rotten:16
Average Rating:4.7/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
Welcome to Splendona High School in Splendona, Texas -- where football players, cheerleaders, and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady (Jane McGregor), the most popular girl in school,...
Welcome to Splendona High School in Splendona, Texas -- where football players, cheerleaders, and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady (Jane McGregor), the most popular girl in school, is on top of it all. That is, at least, until Genevieve LePlouff (Piper Perabo) drops in.
Genevieve, a foreign exchange student from Paris, movies in with Starla’s family in an attempt to help boost Starla’s grade in French class and keep her from getting kicked off the cheerleading squad. At first glance, Genevieve appears to be the typical fish out of water – following Starla around with unwavering admiration at her charmed and wonderful life. But when Genevieve is featured on the front of the school newspaper telling her tale of misfortune and lost love, Starla feels the tide of her perfect world begin to shift.
Before Starla realizes what’s happening, Genevieve has stolen her best friends, her boyfriend, her spot on the cheerleading squad, and her position as the most popular girl in Splendona! But Starla’s not about to go down without a fight. With the help of her little brother and a new crush, she plots her revenge to expose Genevieve as the conniving, back stabbing liar that she really is. -- © The Premiere Marketing & Distribution Group LLC
Starring: Piper Perabo, Alexandra Adi, Jane McGregor, Trent Ford
Starring: Piper Perabo, Alexandra Adi, Jane McGregor, Trent Ford, Nicki Lynn Aycox
Director: Melanie Mayron
Director: Melanie Mayron
Screenwriter: Robert Lee King, Lamar Damon
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Reviews for She Gets What She Wants
The script falls back on too many tried-and-true shenanigans that hardly distinguish it from the next teen comedy.
The humor is sharp and the satirical targets are mercilessly skewered.
A droll, bitchy frolic which pokes fun at the price of popularity and small-town pretension in the Lone Star State.
A delectable little treat that's sunny, funny, and far more intelligent than you'd expect.
A gratingly unfunny groaner littered with zero-dimensional, unlikable characters and hackneyed, threadbare comic setups.
... a cute and sometimes side-splittingly funny blend of Legally Blonde and Drop Dead Gorgeous, starring Piper Perabo in what could be her breakthrough role.
[Mayron] manages to keep things affectionate even while she's sending things up higher than a full moon over Texas.
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