The Hot Chick
| The Hot Chick | |
|---|---|
| File:The Hot Chick movie.jpg The Hot Chick promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Tom Brady |
| Written by | Tom Brady Rob Schneider |
| Produced by | Guy Riedel Adam Sandler |
| Starring | Rob Schneider Rachel McAdams Anna Faris Matthew Lawrence Eric Christian Olsen Sam Doumit |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures |
Release date | December 2 2002 |
Running time | 104 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $N/A |
The Hot Chick is a 2002 comedy film. Rob Schneider plays the title character where he, as a criminal, mysteriously switches bodies with a popular teenager. The bulk of the film revolves around "Jessica" and her friends figuring out how to get Jessica's body back, as well as dealing with the awkward social situations that arose as a result of two completely different strangers switching bodies.
The movie was produced by Adam Sandler, who also had a small role in it. It was directed by Tom Brady, and Tia and Tamera Mowry had a couple of cameos in it. Ashlee Simpson and Michelle Branch also had small roles, and it featured the motion picture debut of Rachel McAdams. It was also filmed at Redondo Union High School.
Plot
The Hot Chick starts when a girl, Jessica, and her friends visit the mall to hang out and do some shopping. They enter a new age store, where they check out a few items they like. Among those, a pair of exotic earrings. Since they are not for sale, Jessica steals them.
Meanwhile, in another part of town, Clive, a career criminal, is robbing a gas station. All he can get there are nachos with cheese and drinks. Jessica and her friends pull over as Clive is leaving the place, and confuse him with a service man. They ask him to check their car, and Clive obeys so as not to raise suspicion. When the girls leave, Jessica realizes she lost one of her earrings, which Clive finds and picks up, thinking it has monetary value.
Later on, Jessica and Clive both try on the earrings, triggering a chain of events that changes their lives. Jessica wakes up to find herself trapped in Clive's body, and Clive finds himself in Jessica's. To complicate things further, Jessica has a cheerleading event coming up soon.
Jessica goes to school in Clive's body, triggering many comical situations. She gets a job as a school janitor and is able to convince her friends she really is Jessica, in a man's body, but she has trouble convincing everybody else. As the school janitor, she finds out that her best friend's boyfriend only wants her best friend for sex, and that her boyfriend really loves her. She also finds how hard so called "manly" situations like going to men's restrooms and other things could be to men.
Clive, wearing Jessica's body, finds himself in more or less the same situation. He feels how disgusted some women may feel when men tell them sexual phrases, and finds himself as the object of attraction to many men. Nevertheless, he uses the situation to his advantage, using his new looks to steal cars from men and to get a well paying job at a bar as a dancer.
In their desperation, Jessica and her friends return to the store where they got the earrings, and find out those earrings were cursed, as a princess of the past who was supposed to marry someone she did not love used the earrings to turn into another person and be able to escape her fate.
One of Jessica's friends sees Clive, using Jessica's body, in the news when a video of him beating up a man is shown. They start looking for Clive and find him working at the bar, where they try to negotiate with him. Clive does not want his new, lucrative body to go back to its original owner, so Jessica takes it back, by stealing the one earring that Clive wears and putting it on, causing them to trade bodies as Clive gives a pole dance to a client, Jessica's best friend's (now) ex-boyfriend.
Cast
- Rob Schneider - Clive/Jessica
- Rachel McAdams - Jessica/Clive
- Anna Faris - April
- Matthew Lawrence - Billy
- Eric Christian Olsen - Jake
- Robert Davi - Stan
- Melora Hardin - Carol
- Alexandra Holden - Lulu
- Maritza Murray - Keecia
- Sam Doumit - Eden
- Megan Kuhlmann - Hildenburg
- Tia and Tamera Mowry - Venetia and Sissy
- Matt Weinberg - Booger
- Angie Stone - Madame Mambuza
- Ashlee Simpson - Monique
- Adam Sandler - Bongo Player (uncredited)
Trivia
- Adam Sandler's role was based on a SNL sketch with Rob Schneider playing the "Weed Obsessed Guy"
- This movie along with The Animal was parodied in South Park.
