Actors: Marla Sokoloff, Marley Shelton, Melissa George, Mena Suvari, Rachel Blanchard, Alexandra Holden, Sara Marsh, James Marsden
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sugar and Spice
Lisa, a bitter "B" Squad cheerleader who has long aspired to the "A" Squad, is telling the police about her "A" Squad rival Diane's involvement in a bank robbery. It started, she says, when Diane met their high school's handsome star quarterback Jack at a game by kicking him in the head. It was instant love. But their status as the perfect couple suffered a blow when their parents learned of her pregnancy. Disowned, Diane and Jack set up housekeeping and had to scrape to get by. Despite their chipper loving happiness, Diane became frustrated by Jack's low earnings and their inability to get a loan. She persuaded her four best friends on the squad to help her with a bank robbery, and to never tell Jack.
For pointers, they watched heist movies. Kansas got her jailed mother to set up consultations with an inmate specializing in banks. They got guns from illegal weapons dealer "The Terminator" - a bug exterminator - in return for putting his geeky daughter Fern into their squad. They practiced by robbing the lunch ticket lady at school. They acted out their plan with dolls on a blueprint. They got matching disguises complete with Betty Doll masks. Feeling ready, they planned their strike for Boxing Day.
Despite multiple glitches - their weapons needing assembly, Jack selling their getaway car, one girl opting out, a yahoo coming at them with a knife - their heist was a success. And despite its notoriety reaching all the way to the Jerry Springer Show, it seemed they were unsuspected. Then Lisa, who witnessed the robbery, happily, cattily revealed them. From posing prettily in a bank lineup, they went quickly to jail. What Lisa does not tell the police about is the phone call Diane made from jail, and how it would change everything.
--vjm, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Sugar and Spice
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Kind of comedy
- bungling criminals
How much humor v. drama
- Nearly all humor
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Eccentric:
Yes
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) long straight
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
