Sugar & Spice

Sugar & Spice (2001)

Why would the most popular girl in school wear a mask?

When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as bank robbery. But the A-Squad does things their way -- with sugar and spice -- forever changing their friendship, their future and the nation's notion of teen spirit.

Date of release
2001-01-24
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (319)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Crime, Comedy, Drama
Director
Francine McDougall

Casting

Interesting facts

Sugar & Spice is a 2001 American teen dark comedy film directed by Francine McDougall, written by Lona Williams under the alias of "Mandy Nelson", and starring Marla Sokoloff, Marley Shelton, Melissa George, Mena Suvari, Rachel Blanchard, and James Marsden. It tells the story of a group of high school cheerleaders who conspire and commit armed robbery when one of them becomes pregnant and is desperate for money.

Production

The film was directed by Australian filmmaker Francine McDougall, who had earlier collaborated with Marla Sokoloff on a 1997 short titled The Date, which revolved around a girl suffering from flatulence while on a date. One of the film's cast members, Melissa George, was also from Australia, and she had begun doing US acting roles the year Sugar & Spice was shot.

It was loosely based on a 1999 series of robberies perpetrated by four teenage girls from the Kingwood area of Houston, Texas. Sokoloff stated, "It's not the same, of course, yet I'm not sure if Sugar & Spice would have been made if that hadn't happened."

The film had a lengthy post-production, and changed so much from the original that Lona Williams had her name removed from the film and the writing was instead credited to the pseudonym Mandy Nelson.

Casting for the film coincided with the casting of another film about cheerleaders, Bring It On. 17 years later, actress Gabrielle Union claimed that she and many of her Bring It On co-stars auditioned for Sugar & Spice, with the latter seen as the more desirable project. "Bring It On was the cheerleading movie that was the consolation prize because you didn't get the cheerleading movie that you wanted", she said.

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