John Tucker Must Die is a
2006 American high school comedy romance film. The film is about a trio of girls (played by
Ashanti,
Sophia Bush, and
Arielle Kebbel) who plot to break the heart of manipulative
basketball star John Tucker (
Jesse Metcalfe) after they learn he has been secretly dating all three and pledging each is "the one". They recruit cute wallflower Kate (
Brittany Snow) in their scheme to publicly humiliate the cad. The movie was released in North America on
July 28 2006. It was directed by
Betty Thomas. The film reached number 3 in the U.S and number 1 in Australia. It received 5.5 out of 10 stars by the
IMDB users.
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Plot
The movie begins with Kate (
Brittany Snow) relating various details of her life up to the point when the film takes place. Her mother Lori (
Jenny McCarthy) is a move around-mom after bad relationships with men (Kate refers to them all as 'Skip', supposedly in relation to the way they 'skip' the relationship). She describes herself as always being "invisible." While working as a waitress, she sees local hottie John Tucker (
Jesse Metcalfe) on dates with three different girls, Carrie (
Arielle Kebbel), a chronic
overachiever who spends her life in
extracurricular clubs and working on her college application, Heather (
Ashanti), who is a sassy, aggressive head
cheerleader and Beth (
Sophia Bush) a
vegan activist who is rumored to be a promiscuous. Kate learns from a co-worker that John dates girls from different
cliques at his school so that they never interact and convinces the girls who he dates to keep their relationships secret by telling them that his father does not allow him to date during basketball season.