The Hot Chick

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The Hot Chick

The Hot Chick promotional poster
Directed by Tom Brady
Produced by Guy Riedel
Adam Sandler
Written by Tom Brady
Rob Schneider
Starring Rob Schneider
Rachel McAdams
Anna Faris
Matthew Lawrence
Eric Christian Olsen
Sam Doumit
Distributed by Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s) December 2, 2002
Running time 104 min.
Language English
Budget $N/A
IMDb profile

The Hot Chick is a 2002 comedy film starring Rob Schneider as the title character — a criminal who mysteriously switches bodies with a popular teenager. The bulk of the film revolves around "Jessica" and her friends figuring out how to get Jessica's body back, as well as dealing with the awkward social situations that arise as a result of two completely different strangers switching bodies.

The movie was directed by Tom Brady, and produced by Adam Sandler, who also had a small role based on a SNL sketch playing the "Mambooza Bongo Player." Tia and Tamera Mowry, Ashlee Simpson and Michelle Branch also had small roles. It was filmed, in part, at Redondo Union High School.

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[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The Hot Chick starts when a girl, Jessica Spencer, and her friends visit the mall to hang out and do some shopping. They enter a new age store, where they check out a few items they like, including a pair of ancient earrings with magical powers. Since the earrings are not for sale, Jessica steals them.

Meanwhile, in another part of town, Clive, a career criminal, is robbing a gas station. The only things he can manage to steal there are nachos with cheese and drinks. Jessica and her friends pull over as Clive is leaving the place, and confuse him with a service-station employee. They ask him to check their car, and Clive obeys so as not to raise suspicion. As the girls drive away, Clive finds one of Jessica's new earrings on the ground after Jessica has accidentally dropped it. He picks up, thinking it might have monetary value.

Later, Jessica and Clive try on their respective earrings at the same time, triggering a chain of life-changing events. Jessica wakes up to find herself trapped in Clive's body, and Clive finds himself in Jessica's. To complicate things further, Jessica has a cheerleading event coming up soon.

Jessica goes to school in Clive's body, triggering many comical situations. She gets a job as a school janitor and is able to convince her friends that she really is Jessica in a man's body, but has trouble convincing anyone else. As the school janitor, she finds out that her best friend's boyfriend only wants her best friend for sex, and that her boyfriend really loves her. She also finds out how hard it can be to navigate so-called "manly" situations such as using a men's restroom.

Clive, wearing Jessica's body, finds himself in similar predicaments. He learns how disgusted some women may feel when men hit on them in lurid, macho fashion. Finding himself as the object of attraction to many men, he takes advantage of the situation, using his newly acquired looks to steal cars from men and to get a well-paying job at a bar as a dancer.

In their desperation, Jessica and her friends return to the store where they got the earrings, and find out that those earrings were cursed: A princess of yore was supposed to marry someone she did not love, and she used the earrings to transfer her consciousness into the body of another person and escape her fate.

One of Jessica's friends sees Clive, using Jessica's body, in the news when a video of him beating up a man is shown. They start looking for Clive, and find him working at a strip club. The girls try to negotiate with him, but the womanly Clive does not want his new, lucrative body to go back to its original owner. Jessica takes back her rightful body by stealing the one earring that Clive wears and putting it on. As a result, they trade bodies back as Clive gives a pole dance to a client — Jessica's best friend's (now) ex-boyfriend.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Quotes

  • "Ling-ling, you forgot your bling-bling!"
  • "Let's go Winona!" (after Bianca was arrested for shoplifting)
  • "Ling-ling! You walk right by Crazy Nails and no say, 'Hi Me!'"
  • "You're the only boy who makes my heart beat faster and slower at the same time."
  • "Just remember, you shake it more than twice, you're playing with it."
  • "A lot of people don't realize this, but you can put your weed in there."
  • "Her booty all wrapped up in licious."

[edit] Cast

[edit] Trivia

Rob Schneider's mother Pilar appeared as one of the cheerleading contest judges.

This film was Ashlee Simpson's film debut.

[edit] External links

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