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At Reagan High, the Flawless Four are the senior girls everyone watches: Courtney Shayne, Marcie Fox, Julie Freeman, and Liz Purr, the kind one the whole school adores. Courtney and Marcie rule by fear. On the morning of Liz's seventeenth birthday, the three friends kidnap her as a prank, gag her with a jawbreaker and lock her in a car trunk. When they open it, Liz is dead. Julie wants the police; Courtney telephones the school as Liz's mother and invents a story about a rapist. That afternoon, outcast Fern Mayo arrives at Liz's house with her homework and finds the girls arranging the body. To keep her quiet, Courtney offers Fern a place in the group, and a makeover turns her into a beautiful exchange student named Vylette, while a guilty Julie drifts away.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jawbreaker (1999)
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- Studio executives at Columbia TriStar only agreed to finance Jawbreaker on the condition that writer-director Darren Stein cast one of three specific actresses in the lead: Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, or Rose McGowan.
- Singer Connie Francis never approved the use of her song “Lollipop Lips” over a sex scene in the film and filed two lawsuits over it, among them a 2002 suit against her record company Universal Music Group for letting her songs be synchronised to “sexually themed” movies, which named Jawbreaker.
- The MPAA objected to a graphic sex scene between Rose McGowan's character and Marilyn Manson's cameo character, forcing the filmmakers to trim it so the film could secure an R rating instead of the more restrictive NC-17.
- Rachael Leigh Cook was originally cast as Julie Freeman but was replaced by Rebecca Gayheart because producers felt Cook did not have the right chemistry with the two other actresses. Gayheart had auditioned for the roles of Fern and Marcie before she was selected for Julie.
- The scene where the actresses strut down the hallway in slow motion to Imperial Teen's “Yoo Hoo” became the film's signature feature, drawing homage most notably in Mean Girls and being parodied in Not Another Teen Movie (2001).
