The Clique (film)

The Clique
DVD cover
Directed by	Michael Lembeck
Written by	Lisi Harrison (novel) Liz Tigelaar (adaption)
Produced by	Bob Levy Leslie Morgenstein Tyra Banks (executive)
Starring	Elizabeth McLaughlin Ellen Marlow Samantha Boscarino Sophie Anna Everhard Bridgit Mendler
Cinematography	Michael Weaver
Edited by	David Finfer
Music by	George S. Clinton
Distributed by	Warner Premiere Alloy Entertainment
Release date	November 11, 2008
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Template:Film US
Language	English

The Clique is a direct-to-DVD film based on the popular teen novel series by author Lisi Harrison. The film is a production of Warner Premiere with Tyra Banks as executive producer. Filming began in February 2008 in Rhode Island and ended in March 2008. The film was released on November 18, 2008.

Plot

The movie starts with Massie Block screaming in her bedroom at her parents. She was going to a party but Massie's parents, Kendra and William, will not let her go because William's friend Jay and his family are moving to Westchester from Florida to stay at their guest house. Massie is angry with them so she calls her friends Dylan, Alicia, and Kristen. Massie tells them that the host of the party, Shelby Marks, has head lice, so that Dylan, Alicia, and Kristen will not want to attend. Massie goes to her pool and is reading a magazine when her mother comes out to make a deal with her. She says that she can go to the end of the party if she will be nice to Jay's daughter, Claire, a girl who is Massie's age, and will be going to her school, Octavian Country Day. The next scene shows Claire and her family arriving at Massie's house. When Massie first sees Claire, she hates her right away, judging by her outfit. Todd, Claire's little broher, is shown to have an obvious crush on Massie. At dinner, Claire gives Massie a charm of a silver microphone for Massie's charm bracelet which Massie makes a rude comment about. Massie then tries to leave for her party but is overheard by Claire, whom Kendra invites to go to the party, but Massie, not wanting to bring her, fakes sick. Claire, envious of Massie's fashion and clothes, asks her mother to take her shopping for new clothes for school. After some begging, her mother agrees. At the mall, Claire meets Dylan, who is in a fight with her own mother because she refuses to buy Dylan pants as she is not a specific size. Claire tells Dylan to switch the tags, which Dylan delightfully replies saying, "You're a brilliant!" Once seeing the rest of her friends, she leaves thanking Claire, who, turning away, smiles.

The next day Massie decides to go riding with her horse, Brownie. On her trail she meets a boy named Chris Abeley who Massie instantly develops a crush on. After a short conversation, they make plans to go riding the following week, in which Chris says "It's a date." The next day Claire hears she is going to school with Massie, much to her excitement. She gets into the car, soon to be accompanied by Massie, who requests that she sits in the back, as they have to "pick up a few more" (Dylan, Alicia, and Kristen). Dylan and Claire recognize each other, and Dylan immediately then stops liking Claire because of Massie's disapproval. During the ride, Kristen asks Massie if they "like" Claire, which Massie coldly replies "No." When Claire is walking to school, she runs into Chris Abeley, who is riding his skateboard and trips, falling onto Claire. Seeing him, Claire develops a crush on him. Massie sees this and storms into the school, furious. Claire comes by and asks Massie for a room location, which Massie replies Claire to "get back to wherever the hell she came from", then offers her friends lattes. Claire goes to art class where the class is supposed to paint a still life of tomatoes. Alicia, who was next to her, spilled red paint on Claire's white jeans, then IMed her friends that she got her period. The art teacher, Vincent, tells Claire to go to the nurse. Claire, not knowing why, asks Dylan for directions, in which Dylan gives Claire the false directions to the class Massie is in. Claire then finds the real nurse's office, and gets new clothes from her "period". At lunch, Massie's crew makes fun of her and laughs at her outfit, causing Claire to leave. Massie, Dylan, Alicia and Kristen have afterschool plans as well, to watch Chris Abeley at school, and Claire is not invited, so she walks home. The next day, when Claire is at school, she decides to make a new friend and show Massie up. She befriends Layne Abeley, who is Chris's little sister. Claire tells Layne she is friends with Massie, lying that she is jealous that she has a new friend and can't only hang out with her. Layne and Claire decide to hang out on Friday, but when Claire comes back home Kendra told Claire that every Friday Massie has a sleepover with her friends and invites her as well. Claire accepts, but she does not know that Massie doesn't want her to come. Claire calls Layne and lies that she has to babysit for Todd, and goes to the sleepover. They are donating old clothes for the annual auction, and they all look at her like she doesn't belong there. Massie and her mother talk, and Massie's mother tells Massie that she has to be nice to Claire. Massie invites Claire to the place they go to sleep during the sleepovers, so Claire goes down. The girls were playing What Would You Rather? Alicia asks if they would rather be A) Friendless losers or B) someone with a ton of friends who secretly hate them. Claire picks A, which Alicia says, "Congratulations, you got your wish." Claire turns to go, but Massie says, "Have you ever played truth or dare?" so they start to play. They then go to sleep, but Alicia makes a farting noise and asks Claire if it was her. Claire gets up to leave, Massie tells her she doesn't have to go. Claire says she wants to.

The next day in the car, Kristen tells the girls she has to do a project, so the girls decided to make a make-up company which Claire named Glambition. When the girls go to make their Glambition lip gloss, Dylan, Alicia and Kristen are waiting for Massie, but Claire wanted to go for a swim. Massie is out riding with Chris Abeley and finds out that Layne is Chris's sister, therefore pretends to be friends with her. Claire convinces the three to swim with her, and they all have fun. Claire lies about the brand of her bathing suit, telling them it is an original Astrud but when Massie comes back from seeing Chris Abeley, she sees through Claire's lie and calls her bathing suit a knockoff. Claire goes home in tears. Her mother sees that something is wrong, telling her to talk to Massie. Claire goes up to talk to Massie about what happened, but it turns out Massie is not there, so she sneaks over to her iMac and pretends to be Massie while IMing Alicia, telling her that she likes Claire now and that she is wearing shorts over tights the next day, which everyone but Massie wears. The next night Claire goes up to Massie's IM again, and insults Dylan's legs, asking if she thinks her legs look good in in a miniskirt, causing Dylan to be mad at Massie and wear only long skirts to hide her legs. The next night, Claire kidnaps Massie's dog Bean to send Massie to go look for Bean. Claire sneaks into Massie's room again and IMs Kristen, tricking her into telling that she's poor. She escapes in time to get away from Massie. The next day, Kristen, Dylan and Alicia befriend Claire and ditch Massie, because they believe that she is friends with Layne instead of them now. Claire accepts, and even hangs out with them after school. They go to a designer store, and Alicia offers to buy her a dress and gives Claire her old cell phone. They then go back to Dylan's house and have fun trying things on and messing around. Claire goes home and starts talking back to her mother, being more like Massie was.

Massie, that night, IMs all of her friends, but only Kristen replies because Massie tells her that she has the makeup lip gloss tubes, and Kristen comes to pick them up, which the two of them get into a screaming argument and Massie figures out about Claire using her IM while she was out. Massie calls Claire with her other friends on a five way conversation, and tells her that her fun is over, then hanging up on her. The girls come over the next day to mix the makeup recipe together to hand out at the school field trip. The girls gossip about Chris Abeley, and Massie asks her friends what to do for Chris Abeley's birthday. They plan for Massie to jump out of a cake at the auction. Claire then comes down and asks to borrow an egg, which Massie agrees to, throwing it at Claire, who runs upstairs crying.

She confides in her mother about things she did and what's going on, and the next day at the school field trip, Claire makes up with Layne. When the Pretty Committee starts selling their lip gloss, all the girls lips swell or burn, which Claire saves the day with oatmeal, to help the girls' lips.

The next day at the auction, Claire meets Chris Abeley's girlfriend, Fawn, and Claire saves Massie from an embarrassing situation by sitting on the cake and asking Fawn to come up and talk about Chris. Massie and Claire talk backstage from the stage, and Massie is nicer and gives Claire a flower. The movie ends with Claire going to sleep and telling her mother that Massie gave her the flower and she wants Massie being nice to her as well as the flower to last for a long while.

Cast and characters

Massie Block (Elizabeth McLaughlin)- Is the alpha of the Clique, and she is fierce. She's a brunette with glossy hair and amber eyes. She has great comebacks, a taste for couture, and a black pug named Bean. She wishes for a Claire-free life, seeing as she sees Claire as a threat. Massie is an angel to her friends, but is critical to others. She had a crush on Chris Abeley until she discovers he has a girlfriend Fawn. Massie enjoys horseback-riding and is the Queen Bee.

• Alicia Rivera (Samantha Boscarino) - The beautiful Spanish beta; she is a brunette and is the Clique's second in command. She is as sneaky as she is beautiful. She always wanted to start her own clique but was always stuck as beta. She is richer and much prettier than the leader, which egnites envy in Massie. But she keeps her cool and stays fun and girly. Alicia is adored by all of the boys at Briarwood, the private school for boys. Her mother is also a Spanish model named Nadia Rivera and her father is a renowned lawyer. She is nicer than Massie by nature, but she loves to gossip and always has the most gossip points.

• Dylan Marvil (Sophie Anna Everhard) - The daughter of Merri-Lee Marvil, host of the popular talk show The Daily Grind. Dylan gives the Clique access to the celebrity and showbiz world. The redhead is also constantly on diets, especially the circle diet which she started at the beginning of the movie, because she thinks she's fat. Though it is not a part of the movie, in the book one of Dylan's favourite hobbies is burping. She also makes everyone in the Clique laugh and loves to wear black or dark colours so she will look more slim.

• Kristen Gregory (Bridgit Mendler) - An athletic girl with dirty blonde hair and attends OCD on a scholarship (a secret only known by Claire Lyons). Both of her parents are extremely strict and poor. She enjoys creating word games to play with the girls including juicy sweatsuit no punch backs, and she is constantly worried about her grades. Although it is not mentioned in the movie, Kristen's father was an unsuccessful art dealer who lost all of his money. Now, Kristen must try to act normal and dress as if she is still rich. She tries her best to keep her grades up to stay at OCD. She likes soccer but is by no means a tomboy.

• Claire Lyons (Ellen Marlow) - A gray-eyed blonde who relocates from Orlando, Florida to Westchester, New York with dorky bangs and bushy eyebrows. Her father went to college with Massie's father. Upon their arrival, Massie's parents offered their guest house to Claire and her family, much to Massie's dismay. She is immediately disliked by Massie mostly by the fact that she wears dorky clothes and invades her life. She is somewhat shy,loves wearing Keds and enjoys gummy candy. She tries her best to be herself and fit in with the Clique so she can have a great time in Westchester, but with financial problems, all of that is difficult to achieve. Her goal is to win Massie's respect and join the Clique.

• Layne Abeley (Vanessa Marano) - Known as "Layme" Abeley to the Pretty Committee. Also Claire's oatmeal-obsessed best friend. She can be described as a combination of a rebel and a geek. She is Claire's first friend at OCD, and ultimately her only true one for the most part. Massie often refers to her and her friends as LBRs (Losers Beyond Repair). Her older brother is Chris Abeley, Massie's crush and hopefully future boyfriend. Layne has always wanted to know what happened in the clique and wanted to be them-though,she never let it show.

• Chris Abeley (Keli Price) - An 'awfully cute' freshman who meets Massie while riding his horse through the woods near Massie's stable. He is said to look like a professional Abercrombie model but some of the girls say is an angel sent from heaven above. Massie quickly falls head over heels for him, not knowing he already has a girlfriend, Fawn.

• Todd Lyons (Dylan Minnette) - Claire's younger brother, who has a crush on Massie and dislikes all of her friends. He helps Claire get out of situations that she can't get out of herself, while trying to ruin Massie's life at the same time, mostly because he likes her. Even though it isn't mentioned in the movie, Todd is known for being a snoop and is always listening in on other peoples conversations especially Massie's.

Supporting characters

• Judi Lyons (Elizabeth Keifer) - Claire's mother who worries that Claire won't believe in herself.
• Jay Lyons (Neal Matarazzo) - Claire's father who was having problems in Orlando and couldn't afford much at all who is all best friends since college with William Block.
• William Block (David Chisum) - Massie's father. He makes a lot of money and tries to help out the Lyons.
• Kendra Block (Julie Lauren) - Massie's mother. She tells Massie to be kind and nice to Claire and hates to see her daughter act so mean.
• Isaac (Boris McGiver) - The Block's driver. He knows what the Pretty Committee talks about and sometimes gives Claire advice especially when she needs it most.
• Fawn (Camila Vignaud) - Chris' girlfriend. She is gorgeous and appears at the end of the film.
• Nurse Adele (Angel Desai) - The Octavian Country Day school nurse. She helps Claire out by offering Claire some clothes from her office, a place the girls call "Nurse"stroms" when she has an "accident"
• Shelby Wexler (Elizabeth Gillies)- A popular eighth grader who Massie excludes when she is not allowed to go to her party because the Lyons are coming.

Songs

#	Title	Artist
1.	"Go"	Rebecca Jones
2.	"Break It Down"	Free & Easy
3.	"Heaven On Earth"	Free & Easy
4.	"Hypnotique"	Free & Easy
5.	"Get Up and Go"	Alana D.
6.	"Ur Perfect"	Juliet Shatkin
7.	"Look But Don't Touch"	Juliet Shatkin
8.	"Commit Me"	Alana D.
9.	"So Dangerous"	Alana D.
10.	"Find My Place"	Samantha Boscarino
11.	"My Own Band"	Mellow Dee
12.	"What You Say"	Mellow Dee
13.	"Psycho 4 U"	CanDee Land
14.	"That Girl"	CanDee Land
15.	"Get Ur Good Time On"	CanDee Land
16.	"Ayo Ayo"	Chris Classic
17.	"Here With Me Now"	The Clique Girlz
18.	"String Quartet No. 18"	Franz Schubert

External links

• The Clique
• The Clique at IMDb
• Official Warner Brothers website
• Media.www.ramcigar.com discusses the filming last February
• Pawtuckettimes.com speaks toward filming last March
• Videobusiness.com speaks of how production wrapped last March and tells the interest producers had in making this a series
• Celebcards.com is pre-release blurb