Summary Capsule
Prom queen killed with candy; cynical teens to blame
DnaError's Rating: Sour center wrapped in a thin candy shell.
DnaError's Review: There is nothing more depressing then a movie that starts out great and then just...plops. The first 20 minutes or so are a delightfully dark feast. The too-hip-for-the-planet girls trying to cover up the accidental murder of a friend. The pale-faced, red-lipped va-va-va voom Courtney (Rose McGowan) delivering snappy remarks with a cold sharpness. It promises us dark comedy, a Macbeth-with-maybellene. But once the mousy Fern shows up, along with the super-fly detective Vera Cruz, the whole thing dissolves into a mess
of heavy-handed cliche's and messy camera work. It's worse then just being unoriginal, it's DULL. Powerfully and potently. But hey, at least the girls are fun to look at.
It's impossible to compare it to Heathers, the other teen-murder-comdey. Jawbreakers is nowhere near that movie's gleeful dark streak and cutting satire. Jawbreaker implodes to early, a female Very Bad Things and is, very very bad.
 1999 Rated R Dark Teen Murder Comedy Director
Starring
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Rose McGowan's fiance, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson, has a cameo appearance in the film.
The Movie Store!
Jawbreaker: Movie [VHS]
Jawbreaker: Movie [DVD]
Jawbreaker: Soundtrack [CD]
Intermission!
Each of the actors playing members of the Purr family were in either Carrie or The Rage: Carrie 2.
Official and Not-So-Official Websites
Jawbreaker 101
Groovy Quotes
Fern: How can she be so evil? She's only in high school!
Courtney: I killed the teen dream. Deal with it.
Courtney: I don't believe we've met, what with the cruel politics of high school and all.
Courtney: Her screams were muffled by the huge candyball. She tried but there was nothing... only sugary sweet death.
Courtney: I have this gift, I can smell a lie.
Courtney: I mean, food's cool and all. It tastes good and you need it to live, but the mere act of eating involves thoughts of digestion, flatulation, defecation, even, shall we say, complexion defection.
Courtney: Life's a bitch, then you die.
Julie: No, honey. You're the bitch.
Courtney: Oh, so aggressive! It's turning me on!
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