Josie and the Pussycats (film)

Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 American musical comedy film released by Universal Pictures and MetroGoldwynMayer. Directed and cowritten by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, the film is loosely based upon the Archie comic of the same name, as well as the HannaBarbera cartoon. The film stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, and Rosario Dawson as the Pussycats, with Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, and Gabriel Mann in supporting roles. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb.

Wyatt lands just outside the town of Riverdale, and meets an unappreciated rock band, the Pussycats vocalistguitarist Josie McCoy Rachael Leigh Cook, drummer Melody Valentine Tara Reid, and bassistbackup vocalist Valerie Brown Rosario Dawson. Because they are struggling financially, the Pussycats accept Wyatts lucrative record deal despite its implausibility. They are flown to New York City where they are renamed Josie and the Pussycats, much to the girls discomfort. All goes well and their first single climbs rapidly to the top of the charts, but Valerie grows increasingly frustrated that all media attention is focused on Josie rather than the band as a whole. Melody, too simple to notice the undue attention Josie receives, uses her uncanny behavioral perception and becomes suspicious of Fiona and Wyatt.Before Valerie and Melodys suspicions can reveal the conspiracy, Fiona orders Wyatt to kill them. He sends them without Josie to a fake television appearance on the MTV show Total Request Live, where an obviously fake Carson Daly impersonator and the real Carson Daly assault them with baseball bats. The girls survive due to their attackers incompetence. Meanwhile, Wyatt prevents Josie from attending a gig by Alan M Gabriel Mann, Josies love interest, by telling her it was canceled. Instead, Josie listens to a remix of their latest single. The remix contains a subliminal message track designed to brainwash her into desiring a solo career, and into seeing Valerie and Melody are impediments to that goal. After an argument with her band mates, Josie realizes that the recording caused the fight. Her suspicions are confirmed when she uses a mixing board to make the subliminal track audible, but she is caught by Fiona. ........

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