Les filles font la loi

Original title: Strike!

1998
PG-13
1h 37m

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6.6/10

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Rachael Leigh Cook, Kirsten Dunst, Gaby Hoffmann, and Monica Keena in Les filles font la loi (1998)

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In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing ... Read allIn the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.In the 1960s, a group of friends at an all girls school learn that their school is going to be combined with a nearby all boys school. They concoct a plan to save their school while dealing with everyday problems along the way.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

7.8K

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
This movie was originally titled "The Hairy Bird". Miramax, the film's American distributor, found the title too offensive as it alludes to male genitalia, so they released the film under the alternate title "All I Wanna Do". In Canada and the United Kingdom, the film is titled "Strike!" Only the Australian release retains the original title.

Goofs
Vereena's tray as she purchases cigarettes from one of the cooks. The plate is on the tray, then on the table as she removes the cigarettes, then it is on the tray again.

Quotes
Odette: Up your ziggy with a wa-wa brush.

Crazy credits
The opening credits state, "A Film By Everyone Who Worked On It."

Alternate versions
When Tinka slow dances with a boy, rubbing her hips against him, the "Strike!" and "The Hairy Bird" versions of the film linger considerably longer on that moment, with two party attendees saying "Look at Tinka, she's at it again!" in the middle. After it is implied that the boy ejaculates, these two versions of the film show Verena mischievously handing the boy a handkerchief, and subsequently saying to Momo: "So suave, so continental these Saint Ambrose boys!", to which Momo responds "I can't wait until they're a permanent part of our lives!", concluding the scene. The dance plays a lot shorter in the "All I Wanna Do" version, and the handkerchief moment and subsequent dialogue with Verena and Momo is completely removed. The scene ends with the party attendees saying "Look at Tinka, she's at it again! in this version, but you can still see a bit of Verena grabbing the handkerchief right before the interaction of the party attendees.

Connections
Featured in Beyond Clueless (2014)

Soundtracks
Walkin' the Dog
Performed and Written by Rufus Thomas
Published by Almo Music Corp.
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

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Featured review

7/10

All I Wanna Do...is watch this movie.

Okay, so that's a little much. But seriously, this is one of the funniest teen-related movies I've seen, and I've seen most of them. The cast is delightful, especially Kirsten Dunst as Verena, the quick-witted ringleader of the Daughters of the American Ravioli. She and her friends Tinka, Tweetie, and Momo take Odette, a new student at Miss Goddard's School for Girls, under their trouble-making, big-dreaming wings and try to stop their beloved school from going co-ed. It sounds like a thin premise for a movie, and maybe it is, but the characters are real and humorous and some of the scenes are extremely funny. The dance, where Verena and Momo spike the punch and intoxicate the choir boys of St. Ambrose, is hilarious, especially if you can pick out Hayden Christensen as a drunken student. And Tom Guiry, Scotty Smalls of "The Sandlot" fame, grew up and got himself some muscles. My one real problem with this movie was Gaby Hoffman as Odette. She was, for the most part, the one dull person in a crowd of comical characters. Her main goal is to be an "ex-virgin" and then become a politician. She's rather boring and expressionless compared to the rest of the DAR. This movie is funny and charming and perfect for a group of girlfriends to watch together. I'd suggest it along the same lines as "Ten Things I Hate About You." I give it 7 stars out of 10.