Josie and the Pussycats Page #7

Synopsis: For years, the record industries have inserted subliminal messages into music so that they can turn teenagers into brain dead zombies who do nothing but buy, buy, buy. And whenever the musician or band finds out the truth, the record company silences them to keep the truth from coming out. When the hot boy band DuJour discovers this, their manager, Wyatt Frame, under his evil, corrupt boss, Fiona, has the plane they are flying in crashed and him looking for a new band to use for their evil schemes. Enter Josie, the ditsy Melody, and the tough Valerie, from Josie and the Pussycats, a small band who wants to make it to the big time. When they are discovered by Wyatt, they give in and become big rock stars. But will they find out that they are just pawns for the record industry or will fame take them over?
Genre: Comedy, Music
Production: Universal Pictures
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.4
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
52%
PG-13
Year:
2001
98 min
$14,126,075
Website
787 Views


And, you know, we may have

started this band together,

but the only reason we've

come this far is because ofyou.

Now, look.

I don't care if we're

Josie and the Pussycats,

or Valerie and the Pussycats

or whoever and the Pussycats.

It doesn't matter

as long as we're together.

You're my sister, Val.

Ilove you.

I love you too, Jose.

- And I love you, Val.

And I love you, Josie.

- And I love you, Mel.

And l...

I scream, you scream,

we all scream for ice cream.

Everyone loves everyone.

Now, let's get

this show started!

We want the show!

We want the show!

So, what is it

this time, Fiona...

cross-trainers,

pizza bagels, lip gloss?

Oh, it's bigger...

much, much bigger.

You're gonna have a pretty hard

time selling secret messages

once your secret's out.

Oh, and tell me, cookie...

who will believe you?

Who will get behind

the ridiculous ramblings

of one silly, powerless girl?

We will.

Who the hell are you?

Someone you thought

you'd gotten rid of.

- Oh, my God,

it's Les from Dujour!

- Les?

I tried to warn you...

the message on your mirror.

That was you?

Dujour was in my bathroom!

I love you, Les!

- But I thought you guys were

killed in a plane crash.

- That's what I thought. Wyatt?

Oh, well, we managed

to land the plane just fine.

Unfortunately,

it was in the parking lot

ofa Metallica show.

Well, the fans beat

the crap out of us.

Well, you don't look

too bad.

And I thank God every day

I knew the words to 'Enter Sandman'.

Word, Doc. She's not

gonna get away with it...

not this time.

Let's get 'em, boys,

Dujour-style!

Anyway...

Oh, now, come on!

Boy, you almost got me.

Honestly,

girls all over the world

would kill to be in your shoes,

and here you stand,

running away from it.

Why?

So you could go crawling back

to "Shitdale" and spend

the rest of your life...

being washed up

with your loser friends,

dopey and mopey there?

- That's it.

Just stop right there, missy.

Wyatt, you messed

with the wrong p*ssy.

- You want some?

Come on. Bring it!

- No, no!

No, baby, no! Let go!

Let go! Let go!

Ooh!

Ooh!

What are you gonna do...

kill me with the guitar?

Who's gonna go up there

and sing? You need me, remember?

Need you?

Doll, I created you,

and, believe me,

I can destroy you.

- I'm sorry.

Did you need that?

- Wyatt! Fix it!

You... what's yourjob?

Fix this!

Oh, it's too late!

They're already taking off the ears!

Fiona is the most jerkin' girl

in the world!

Everybody loves Fiona!

She's got the best hair

and the most awesome clothes!

And she's so thin!

I know I want to be just like Fiona!

That's the secret message

that you wanted to send out...

that you're cool?

What?

- That's not me, I swear.

- You're not doing it right!

Hey, that's my job!

If I wath a guy,

I'd athk her out.

- If I wath a girl, I'd want to

be her be tht friend forever.

- What's wrong with your voice?

We'd have thlumber parties and

thtay up braiding each otherth

hair and have tickle fights!

Oh, thure.

Go ahead and laugh.

You don't know what it'th like

to be teathed and ridiculed

your whole life.

The thells thilver thwans

down by the theathore.

Theven thilver...

The thwims...

I tried, didn't I?

All I ever wanted wath

to be popular.

- Tell me, ith that tho bad?

- Lisa?

- What did you call me?

- Lisa Snyder?

"Lithping Litha"?

That-That-That wath

my nickname in thchool.

Huntington High School.

Lisa, it's me... Wally.

"White-ass Wally."

White-ath Wally?

The albino kid?

That'th impothible.

- Firtht ofall,

he wathn't Britith.

- I'm not.

I just started talking

like that because...

I thought it would

make me more attractive.

- He wath tho pale.

- Makeup.

l-l-I learned to thpeak

without a lithp.

Look!

Look!

I can't believe it'th you.

I thn't it the thtrangetht

cointhidenth?

Wait.

Oh, I've been holding that in

for the past 15 years.

This is so romantic.

Yeah, in a... creepy,

ironic sort ofway.

So, what's the moral

of the story here...

freaks should date other freaks?

No, I think the moral

of the story here is you should

be happy with who you are.

This whole time we've been

spending money on expensive

clothes to impress people.

Never made me happy.

No! Happ... Oh, my gosh.

Happiness is on the inside.

I'm not this.

I'm not what I wear.

I'm not what I wear!

You should think about this.

Oh, please.

Unlike you bunch of wackjobs,

I am perfect just as I am.

Holy sh*t!

That girl's got a skunk

on her head!

Oh, geez.

That's just your hair.

Sorry, but that's messed up.

- Who are you?

- I'm Agent Kelly.

I'm with the government.

Oh, thank God!

Did you know...

that Fiona and Wyatt are using

that machine to send subliminal

messages through our music?

They're trying to create

an army of mindless teenagers,

to make them buy things and

even control their thoughts.

They what?

Oh, come on.

You knew about thith

from the very beginning.

- Gentlemen, arrest

that woman and that man...

- What?

on charges of conspiracy

against the youth of America.

- You can't be theriouth.

- Oh, I'm serious, ma'am.

This is a very serious offense.

Sorry, but they're on to us.

Somebody's got to take the fall.

You bathtard!

Besides, after the concert,

we were gonna shut down

your operation anyway.

We found

that subliminal messages

work much better in movies.

All right, let's go.

Well, now that you girls are

done saving the world,

I think you have

a concert to play.

Give it up for

Josie and the Pussycats!

Josie! Josie!

Josie! Josie!

I'm gonna take these off.

Stop!

I know you all came out here

tonight because you heard

something you liked on our CD

We're gonna play something

different for you tonight...

something you haven't heard.

It's cool if you like it.

It's all right if you don't.

Just...

decide for yourselves.

This is for someone

who said he believed in me.

Kinda wish he was here now.

Josie! Josie!

- Alan M!

- Josie!

- What are you doing here?

- I have to tell you that...

even though you don't feel

the same way about me...

as I do about you,

and even though

you didn't come to my gig...

What do you mean?

Wyatt told me it was canceled!

That dick!

What did you mean about

the l-don't-feel-the-same-way-

about-you-as-you-do-about-me?

That's what I came here to tell you!

Josie McCoy, l...

I love you!

I love you too!

I always have!

Hi.

Hi.

Damn!

I love you.

Contain the excitement.

Why'd you have to hit me, man?

It was just never gonna stop.

Can you see me and

my nose on the microphone?

From this command center

we control everything...

except what I'm gonna say next.

I can't even believe

that they let me bring...

You slept with him!

You better get his mama

to get him a new face.

Ah-ah-ah.

You know my mom's dead.

That's just...

Next up on weather...

What is wrong with you?

Goodness, won't somebody

please save us?

Hey, those are my bunny ears!

Sh...

This is what our operation...

I just spat right in the camera.

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Deborah Kaplan

Deborah Kaplan (born November 11, 1970) is an American screenwriter and film director. Raised in Abington, Pennsylvania, Deborah Kaplan met her creative partner Harry Elfont while they were both enrolled at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University (NYU). They have since written several films together, and directed two: Can't Hardly Wait and Josie and the Pussycats. Kaplan married actor Breckin Meyer (who had small roles in both of the films she directed) on October 14, 2001. They have two children together, a daughter named Keaton Willow, born on December 31, 2003 and another daughter named Clover. The marriage ended in divorce in 2012. more…

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