John Tucker Must Die

The movie begins with Kate (Brittany Snow) relating various details of her life up to the point when the film takes place. Her mother Lori (Jenny McCarthy) is a move around-mom after bad relationships with men (Kate refers to them all as 'Skip', supposedly in relation to the way they 'skip' the relationship). She describes herself as always being "invisible." While working as a waitress, she sees local hottie John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) on dates with three different girls, Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), a chronic overachiever who spends her life in extracurricular clubs and working on her college application, Heather (Ashanti), who is a sassy, aggressive head cheerleader and Beth (Sophia Bush) a vegan activist who is rumored to be a slut. Kate learns from a co-worker that John dates girls from different cliques at his school so that they never interact and convinces the girls who he dates to keep their relationships secret by telling them that his father does not allow him to date during basketball season.One day in gym class Kate, Carrie, Heather, and Beth all end up on the same team for a volleyball game. The girls learn of Tucker's scheme because of Carrie's big mouth and begin fighting, landing them all in detention. Kate, who gets detention for no reason except trying to break it up, is enlisted to help in the retaliation against John Tucker. In the meantime Kate becomes friends with John's brother Scott (Penn Badgley) better known as "The Other Tucker". Despite the girls' strengths, their initial attempts to undo John through making people believe he has herpes and undermining his confidence by giving him estrogen (under the pretense of Heather insisting he needs to bulk up) are eventually utilized by him and he remains as popular as ever. Finally, after he breaks up with Carrie, Heather and Beth, they agree that breaking his heart is the ideal revenge and enlist Kate to aid them. Kate joins the cheerleading team in order to get John's attention.He sees her after the practice, and compliments her. When Kate meets up with the troupe and tells them of John's compliment, she overreacts, and is forced to admit she's never dated anyone; however, the girls still agree to try. Kate and John go on a series of dates after John will not score the winning point at a basketball game. The first of these is a night at the local beach, watching the sunset and having a romantic fire while the other girls watch with surveillance equipment. Not prepared after John asks to take her home, Beth intervenes. To teach her how to kiss, Beth kisses Kate, but they are seen by a teen, and after Kate turns on the brights, John arrives, forcing Beth to hide in the back of his Jeep. At her house, Kate manages to buy Beth time to escape by kissing John, Beth's skirt being ruined in the process ("He's not even my date, and he still gets me out of my skirt!").The next date is on a romantic boat ride, which Heather, Beth and Carrie have never done before. It turns out to be a nice date, and after trying to track Kate and John, the trio end up abandoning their boat after the motor breaks down and they have no cell signals. Beth later notices that Kate is starting to fall for John, and so Carrie tapes John convincing his friends in the guys' locker room that he is not whipped and will be scoring "more than baskets" at the away game. Kate, still unsure, is shown the tape at the hotel while preparing for the away basketball game and the girls try another plan to embarrass John Tucker, involving his dressing in a thong (believing that Kate has a special night planned). He is caught, and becomes the laughingstock of the school; however, John uses this to his advantage to show that he can still do basketball stunts in a thong, starting a fashion trend among the other guys.Meanwhile, Kate's mother and Scott both discover the plan and lament the change in Kate's behavior. Afterward Kate ignores John's attempts to talk to her and she reveals that she heard about what he said in the locker room about her. John tells Kate he's whipped, gives her his watch, and asks her to be his girlfriend. Kate tells Heather, Carrie and Beth that she wants out of the plan, as whether they are plotting to destroy or dating John Tucker, it's still all about him. Later, at John's birthday party, the tape the girls made of John's destruction is played, and Kate steps on stage and reveals the entire plot. Heather, Beth and Carrie defend her after a guest throws his drink at her. Still, John Tucker is unfazed, and the party devolves into a cake fight.A few days later, John and Kate agree to be friends, and John resolves to be honest, telling his new girlfriend about his other girlfriend. Scott, happy that Kate admitted the plot, accepts to be her lab partner again, coming up with a cheesy excuse that he cut his partner's finger off. It is hinted the two will begin dating, and Kate is now friends with Beth, Carrie, and Heather. The movie ends with Kate telling how John became truthful (John is shown introducing his girlfriend to his other one) and the movie ends with Kate saying, as she, Beth, Carrie, and Heather all sit down at a table together and start talking, "As for the girl who made John Tucker fall in love, well, she's a legend."In an after-credits scene, Kate warns viewers at home wanting to try this that destroying a man has consequences, and the camera pans to several male teachers bending over to grab some papers, all wearing thongs.