Jawbreaker (film)

Jawbreaker is a 1999 American black comedy film written and directed by Darren Stein. The film stars Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer as girls in an exclusive clique in their high school. Charlotte Ayanna has a nonspeaking cameo role as a murdered prom queen. The film was inspired by the film Heathers, and is often compared to it, particularly the plot involving a popular female clique, and the accidental murder of one of its members. Of his concept for the film, Stein has stated The jawbreaker just came to represent the duality of the poppy sweetness of the girls, of high school and of youth, versus the whole idea that this thing could break your jaw. The film was released on February 19, 1999 and was a critical and financial failure, though it has come to gain a cult following.citation needed Similarities have drawn between Jawbreaker and the 2004 film Mean Girls.

Courtney, Marcie, and Julie decide to play a mindless prank on Liz the morning of her 17th birthday, by performing a fake kidnapping. They surprise Liz in bed, bind her with ropes, and Courtney rams a jawbreaker into her mouth to gag her, before sealing her mouth with duct tape. The girls then lock Liz in the trunk of a car and drive off, actually planning to take her to a restaurant for breakfast. Upon opening the trunk, however, they are greeted with the grisly sight of Liz dead, having choked on the jawbreaker.Julie wants to go to the police, but Courtney forbids her. Courtney calls the school pretending to be Lizs mother and tells them Liz is ill and cannot attend school, then the three go to school as though nothing had happened. When Principal Sherwood Carol Kane sends school outcast and ardent admirer of Liz, Fern Mayo Judy Greer, to deliver Lizs homework at the end of the day, she stumbles upon the three girls and Lizs mangled body. Out of jealousy, Courtney fabricates an elaborate story that Liz died at the hands of a rapist, and plots to tarnish Lizs good reputation by spreading false rumors that she was actually a rebellious, promiscuous girl, who drank and did drugs and was not the perfect angel she made herself out to be. ........

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