The Hot Chick

"The hottest chick in town just switched bodies with the luckiest loser in the world."

2002 1h 44m EN

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6.4

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21%

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METACRITIC

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5.6

IMDB

★6.4TMDB · 2,265🥫21%Rotten Tomatoes●29Metacritic★5.6IMDB · 108,672

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Synopsis

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Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school -- she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch bodies with Clive, a sleazy crook. Jessica, in the form of the repulsive Clive, struggles to adjust to this radical alteration and sets out to get her own body back before the upcoming prom.

“The hottest chick in town just switched bodies with the luckiest loser in the world.”

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Cast

Rob Schneider
Jessica
Anna Faris
April
Matthew Lawrence
Billy
Eric Christian Olsen
Jake
Robert Davi
Stan
Melora Hardin
Carol
Alexandra Holden
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Rachel McAdams
Jessica

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tom Brady
Writers: Tom Brady, Rob Schneider, Robin Richesson
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Tom Brady, shot by Tim Suhrstedt. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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3 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Debney. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Peck Prior shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 7

CAST

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Rob Schneider and Anna Faris and Matthew Lawrence carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The hottest chick in town just switched bodies with the luckiest loser in the world.".

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0302640 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Tom Brady directs. Tim Suhrstedt behind the camera. John Debney scores. Peck Prior cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

1Released 24 years ago.
2Directed by Tom Brady, shot by Tim Suhrstedt. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by John Debney. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Editor Peck Prior shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Rob Schneider and Anna Faris and Matthew Lawrence carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "The hottest chick in town just switched bodies with the luckiest loser in the world.".
7IMDB entry: tt0302640 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 18 themes, including "sexual identity", "high school", "friendship", "jewelry".
9Released under 11 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Tim Suhrstedt
Original score: John Debney
Editing: Peck Prior
Production design: Marc Fisichella
Costume design: Alix Friedberg
Makeup / hair: Larry Waggoner
VFX supervisor: Ray McIntyre Jr.
Sound: Keith Rogers
Stunt coordinator: Gregg Smrz
Runtime: 104 min · 1h 44m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $34,000,000
Box office: $54,639,553
Return: 161% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Hot Chick (2002)
Rotten Tomatoes: 21% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 29/100
IMDB rating: 5.6/10 · 108,672 votes
MPAA: PG-13

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4 nominations total

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Kamurai2020-07-14
★ 6/10
Decent watch, might watch again, but I don't think I can whole-heartedly recommend it. This "body swap" trope is dealing with both sex swapping and age swapping, but not parent-child swapping, so a lot of things come with that in this silly dirt comedy. I'm not even sure you could make this movie in 2020, there would be too much heat from online communities. Just a "30 year old man" hanging around high schoolers, let alone young women, let alone young women that attract attention like these rich little brats do. The writing is a lot of plot convenience, not only do they not immediately end up in jail, there are neglectful parents, school faculty, and far too many people to know about the situation and believe it. With the ratio of people that accept it, she could just live openly as a "girl in a mans body". I do enjoy that the medium in this version is a pair of earrings, they make sense and keep you from thinking about it for too long. Weirdly, they do manage to shift focus by writing in weird distractions all over the place, and it surprisingly helps with transitions: Adam Sandler a a fake rastafarian (I think at one point they agreed to always play racist roles in each others movies), a weird, but positive, racial identity plot, and even a dance club sequence that felt rather unecessary. Now the point is that it's a comedy, and it should be funny, and it is, at times, but using potentially serious issues as comedy really distracts from the "I'm just having a good time" of it all, even when it's legitimately funny. It's not that it's all bad, or that I don't like it, or like I won't watch it again, eventually, but there are a lot of movies to watch, and no one is missing anything from skipping this one.

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