In Defense of Jawbreaker (1999)

This (mostly) forgotten high school comedy cult classic is much more than the proto-Mean Girls

Feb 13, 2024

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“*Having a smoke? A toke? Some dope? Trouble brews in the girl’s room*.” Rose McGowan and Judy Greer face-off in Darren Stein’s underrated teen comedy classic *Jawbreaker* (1999).

It’s an image so iconic that its provenance is almost irrelevant: a group of beautiful young women, dressed to the nines, walking in slow-motion down the hallway of a high school. “

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