Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009) on Netflix
Lina Cruz leaves East Los Angeles for Malibu when her widowed mother remarries. Blocked from varsity by captain Avery, Lina joins the Sea Lions and brings in friends from her old school.
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Plot summary
Catalina 'Lina' Cruz cheers for her East Los Angeles high school until her widowed mother, Isabel, marries Henry, a wealthy widower, and the family relocates to Malibu. Lina enrolls at an exclusive school in Malibu, where Avery, the Jaguars' all-star captain, keeps her off varsity. Forced by her mother to join the Sea Lions, the junior varsity squad, Lina is elected its captain. She recruits Gloria, her friend from East Los Angeles, to move in with the family and help, and when a Sea Lion quits she calls in Treyvonetta, known as Trey. Lina also meets Evan, Avery's brother, practicing basketball.
Cast
- Vanessa Bornas Gloria
- Janelle Martinezas East LA Girl #2
- Jessica Martinezas East LA Girl #1
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Bring It On: Fight to the Finish gave Christina Milian both her first role as a Latina character and the first time she spoke Spanish in a film.
- Christina Milian had already worked with director Bille Woodruff on a music video and did not audition for the film; instead she sat in on the casting sessions for some of the other roles, including Lina's love interest.
- The Gavilan College cheerleading team and its coach, Rachel Becerra, were invited to appear after the casting director learned about the squad through a mutual acquaintance, and the team performed one of its own routines during the film's cheer-off sequence.
