She accidentally drops one of the earrings on the ground, the girls drive away, and Clive picks up the earring. When Jessica and her friends stop there and mistake him for an employee, he services their car to avoid raising suspicion. Shortly afterward, small-time criminal Clive Maxtone robs a nearby gas station. The earrings are not for sale, so Jessica steals them. After that, she and her friends visit the local mall, where Jessica gets her rival Bianca into trouble and finds the earrings in an African-themed store. At school one day, Jessica makes fun of an overweight girl named Hildenburg and a Wiccan girl named Eden. April is Jessica's best friend, and all four girls are cheerleaders. Her closest friends are April, Keecia, and Lulu. In her modern-day suburban home, Jessica Spencer is a beautiful but mean-spirited 'hot chick'. When each woman wears one of the earrings, their bodies are magically swapped while their minds remain in place. In 50 BC, in an Abyssinian castle, the princess Nawa uses a pair of enchanted earrings to escape an arranged marriage by swapping bodies with a slave girl. The film was a moderate box office success, but received negative reviews from critics who criticized the jokes and Schneider's performance. Parts of the film were shot at Redondo Union High School and El Segundo High School. Sisters Tia and Tamera Mowry and singers Ashlee Simpson, Angie Stone, and Michelle Branch also had small roles. Anna Faris stars as Jessica's best friend, April, and Matthew Lawrence plays Jessica's steady boyfriend.Īdam Sandler served as executive producer and has a small role in the film as the Mambuza Bongo Player, a character based on one played by Schneider in a Saturday Night Live sketch. Schneider stars as Clive Maxtone, a middle-aged criminal who switches bodies with mean-spirited cheerleader Jessica Spencer, played by Rachel McAdams. The Hot Chick is a 2002 American fantasy comedy film written and directed by Tom Brady, with additional writing by Rob Schneider.

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