| Slap Her... She's French | |
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| Directed by | Melanie Mayron |
| Produced by | Thomas Augsberger Steven Brown & Matthias Deyle |
| Written by | Lamar Damon Robert Lee King |
| Starring | Piper Perabo Jane McGregor Trent Ford |
| Music by | Christophe Beck David Michael Frank |
| Cinematography | Charles Minsky |
| Editing by | Marshall Harvey |
| Distributed by | Winchester Films |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Slap Her… She's French, shown in the United States as She Gets What She Wants, is a 2002 Winchester Films teen comedy, directed by Melanie Mayron and starring Piper Perabo.[1]
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Starla Grady is the popular head cheerleader and pageant queen of her Splendona, Texas high school. She hosts a French foreign exchange student, an orphan named Genevieve Le Plouff. After winning the affections of Starla's parents, friends, and boyfriend, Genevieve soon begins to take over Starla's life.
When Starla is forced to quit the cheerleading squad after getting some bad grades in French, Genevieve moves in to take her place, and then the roles are reversed. Genevieve is the popular head cheerleader, and Starla is the unpopular student. Soon Genevieve takes Starla's place in the News Anchor Competition, and, framed by Genevieve, Starla is arrested for possessing a knife and getting high. But then Starla learns that Genevieve was, in fact, a former elementary school classmate, whom Starla had embarrassed so much that she felt compelled to move to France.
With her charade exposed, Genevieve leaves town in disgrace and Starla reclaims her status in school and town although she never got her dream as a reporter but she felt that shes a changed woman .The final scene show Genevieve now in her true heritage steals Starla's ID card and returns to France as she is welcomed to her new adoptive French family upon her arrival in Paris,possible that she'll start the process all over again.
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