Tagline: The rules are set. The game is on.
Sleepover movie storyline. Julie and her friends Hannah, Farrah, and Yancy have a supercharged sleepover on their hands: they’ve been challenged to a scavenger hunt by “popular” girls Staci, Liz, Jenna, and Molly, and the winners get dibs on the coveted cool lunch spot once they start their freshman year in high school at the end of the summer. The losers have to dine al fresco adjacent to the dumpster, and far from popularity.
Staci and her devious pals have built in several snags for Julie’s crew. They’ll have to undertake such Herculean tasks as sneaking into a “grown-up” nightclub, rearranging clothes on store mannequins at a crowded mall, stealing underwear from the most popular boy in the neighborhood, and somehow swiping the king or queen’s crown at the high school dance.
With the exuberance of youth and the support of true friends on their side, Julie and her pals must first escape Julie’s house. This won’t be easy, as Julie’s mom, Gabby, has the girls swear to stay indoors while she herself goes out for a night on the town with her own girlfriends. Also, Julie’s dad, Jay, is downstairs grappling with a testy faucet while her college brother, Ren, is home and underfoot.
Using their wits, a little bit of luck, and a rose trellis, the girls slip out into the night. Before this adventure is over, they will have to outrun dimwitted neighborhood security, learn to drive an impossibly small electric car, create chaos at the mall, invade a posh nightclub (where Julie’s mom is dancing the night away!), elude pesky skateboarding dorks, and come face to face with the boys of their dreams. All in all, not bad for the first sleepover of the summer.
Sleepover is a 2004 American teen film directed by Joe Nussbaum and starring Alexa Vega, Sara Paxton, Mika Boorem, Scout Taylor-Compton, Kallie Flynn Childress, Sean Faris, Steve Carell, Jane Lynch, Sam Huntington, Brie Larson and Evan Peters.
The film opened at #10 in the box office with $4,171,226. The film would later make $9,436,390 in the United States and $712,563 internationally, resulting in a $10,148,953 gross worldwide, on a $10 million budget.
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Sleepover (2004)
Directed by: Joe Nussbaum
Starring: Alexa Vega, Mika Boorem, Kallie Flynn Childress, Jane Lynch, Eileen April Boylan, Sara Paxton, Brie Larson, Summer Glau, Sam Huntington, Katija Pevec
Screenplay by: Elisa Bell
Production Design by: Stephen McCabe
Cinematography by: James L. Carter
Film Editing by: Craig Herring
Costume Design by: Pamela Withers
Set Decoration by: Teresa Visinare
Art Direction by: Drew Boughton
Music by: Deborah Lurie
MPAA Rating: PG for thematic elements involving teen dating, sensuality, language.
Distributed by: Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Release Date: July 9, 2004
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