The Cheetah Girls (2003) on Netflix
TV-G20031h 29mComedyDramaFamily
Galleria, Chanel, Aqua, and Dorinda sing as The Cheetah Girls and want to be the first freshmen to win their performing arts school's talent show. A producer offers them a record deal.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb5.0/1010,087 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes75%
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Plot summary
Galleria, Chanel, Aqua, and Dorinda sing together as The Cheetah Girls, performing at a children's birthday party in Manhattan. Galleria comes home to parents who scold her for skipping phone messages and for not walking the family dog, Toto; Chanel's mother is busy preparing for a date with her Parisian boyfriend; Dorinda works as a janitor at a community center. All four attend a performing arts high school, and they want to win the talent show, which no freshmen have done before. At their audition, Jackal Johnson, a famous alumnus and record producer, takes an interest in signing them. Galleria calls herself the group's founder and songwriter, a claim her bandmates resent, and her mother Dorothea hesitates before allowing a meeting.
Cast
- Denton Roweas Mackerel
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Cheetah Girls (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Solange Knowles was originally cast as Aqua but pulled out to focus on the release of her debut album Solo Star; Kiely Williams, who had auditioned for the role of Galleria and missed out, was then offered Aqua instead.
- Disney executives dropped the character Anginette Walker from the books because they could not find the right twin girls to play her and Aqua; author Deborah Gregory says Tia and Tamera Mowry's names were brought up in the meeting but were considered "too sophisticated" for the roles.
- On release the film was the number one rated basic cable telecast and premiered to 6.5 million viewers, a record for Disney at the time.
