John Tucker Must Die

Plot

Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.

Release Year: 2006

Rating: 5.5/10 (28,336 voted)

Critic's Score: 41/100

Director:
Betty Thomas

Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Ashanti, Arielle Kebbel

Storyline
Kate (Brittany Snow) is the new girl in school. She catches John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) dating three different girls at once: Carrie – the smart girl, Heather – the cheerleader, and Beth – the activist slut; none of them are aware that they are not the only girl in John's heart. Kate, having been raised by a single mother, has seen the pain caused by playboys like John Tucker, and she won't stand idly by. Together with the three jilted ex-girlfriends, they hatch a plan to teach John a lesson. Things rarely go as planned, especially when Kate starts to think that she might be falling for John herself.

Cast:

Jesse Metcalfe
–

John Tucker

Brittany Snow
–

Kate

Ashanti
–

Heather

Sophia Bush
–

Beth

Arielle Kebbel
–

Carrie

Penn Badgley
–

Scott

Jenny McCarthy
–

Lori

Fatso-Fasano
–

Tommy

(as Fatsô-Fasanô)

Kevin McNulty
–

Basketball Coach

Patricia Drake
–

Coach Williams

Amanda Li
–

Spelling Bee Girl

Jeffrey Ballard
–

Cute Boy

(as Jeff Ballard)

Taylor Kitsch
–

Justin

Steve Bacic
–

Skip #1

Dean Wray
–

Skip #2

Taglines:
Don't Get Mad, Get Even

Details

Official Website:
Official MySpace Site ("Beth") |
Official MySpace Site ("Carrie") |

Release Date: 28 July 2006

Filming Locations: Azure Lounge & Grill Bar – 770 Pacific Blvd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office Details

Budget: $18,000,000

(estimated)

Opening Weekend: $14,276,534
(USA)
(30 July 2006)
(2560 Screens)

Gross: $68,824,526
(Worldwide)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

Director Betty Thomas referred to all the actors by their characters' names, since, she claims, she couldn't remember their real names, and she wanted to think of them as their character. When she forgot their characters' names, she'd simply refer to them as "person".

Goofs:

Continuity:
At the end when Scott and Kate are talking, you can see a black man wearing a yellow shirt with what seems to be a bandaged left ear pass behind Scott. The scene the switches back to Kate, then when it switches back to Scott, the same guy passes behind him again.

Quotes:

Scott:
I don't think she's your type…

John Tucker:
Girl is my type!

User Review

Cute, Cute, The "Johns" out there Must die. Just kiddin.

Rating: 7/10


OK, so I went to see this with my mom who is over 55, my niece who is
15 and I am 26…..so you have assorted ages and opinions and point of
views…Well we all thought is was going to be cute and funny but we
didn't think we would laugh the whole time and think that it would
actually have a good story to it. I thought that my mother and I liked
it more than my niece did, I'm not sure if that was because we could
relate to the moral of the story but I know she laughed a lot louder
than we did at times. But we all laughed. The crowd was mostly teens.
Compared to other movies out this summer I think it is worth paying the
day or night rate. I would actually go see it again.