Slap Her... She's French
| Slap Her... She's French | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Melanie Mayron |
| Written by | Lamar Damon Robert Lee King |
| Produced by | Thomas Augsberger Steven Brown & Matthias Deyle Beau Flynn |
| Starring | Piper Perabo Jane McGregor Trent Ford |
| Cinematography | Charles Minsky |
| Edited by | Marshall Harvey |
| Music by | Christophe Beck David Michael Frank |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Winchester Films |
Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Slap Her… She's French, shown in the United States as She Gets What She Wants, is a 2002 American teen comedy, directed by Melanie Mayron and starring Piper Perabo.[1]
Plot
High school student Starla Grady is the popular head cheerleader and pageant queen of the small town of Splendona, Texas. She hosts a French foreign exchange student, an orphan named Genevieve Le Plouff. After winning the affections of Starla's parents, friends, and boyfriend, Genevieve soon begins to take over Starla's life.
When Starla is forced to quit the cheerleading squad after getting some bad grades in French, Genevieve moves in to take her place, and then the roles are reversed. Soon, Genevieve is the popular head cheerleader, and Starla is the unpopular student. Soon Genevieve takes Starla's place in the News Anchor Competition, and, framed by Genevieve, Starla is arrested for possessing a knife and getting high on mushrooms. But then Starla learns that Genevieve was, in fact, a former elementary school classmate, whom Starla had embarrassed so much that she felt compelled to move to France and has come back in disguise to get revenge on Starla.
With her charade exposed, Genevieve leaves town in disgrace and Starla reclaims her status in school and town although she never achieved her ambition of becoming a reporter nor getting a college scholarship, but now feels that she's a changed woman. However, the final scene shows Genevieve, now demonstrating her true Texan origins, stealing Starla's ID card/drivers license and returning to France and she is welcomed to her new adoptive French family upon her arrival in Paris, play acting as Starla... and strongly implying that she'll start the process of building a new life for herself by trickery, deception, and manipulation all over again.
Cast
- Jane McGregor as Starla Grady
- Piper Perabo as Genevieve LePlouff
- Trent Ford as Ed Mitchell
- Alexandra Adi as Ashley Lopez
- Nicki Aycox as Tanner Jennings
- Jesse James as Randolph Grady
- Julie White as Bootsie Grady
- Brandon Smith as Arnie Grady
- Matt Czuchry as Kyle Fuller
- Christen Coppen as Doreen Gilmore
- Haley Ramm as young Starla Grady (uncredited)
- Amy Bradford as French airplane passenger (uncredited)
- Ashley Blake as Megan
- Laura Halvorson as Beef Band fiddle player
References
- ^ Amazon.com. "Slap Her ... She's French (Region 2)". Retrieved 2009-01-05.
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