History Film / Jawbreaker

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Before the climax, [[spoiler:Julie discovers that an old record-message Birthday Card recorded Courtney confessing killing Liz. With help of Julie's boyfriend, who was on the Theater club, they make the message to play during Courtney's Prom Queen speech]].

* KarmaHoudini: Marcie doesn't really receive any comueppance for her hand in things, as everything else is aimed at Courtney.

* MakeWayForThePrincess: All the high school makes their space to the ''breathtaking'' entrance of the GirlPosse.

* ShrinkingViolet: Fern is your standard shy and quiet girl from High School that is not as beautiful as the GirlPosse and would be unnoticed by the crowd and the rest of her classmates. As a way to make her silent about Liz's death, Courtney convinces her to "transform" into a different person. And, oh, wow, this makes her more confident... and it works pretty well at its best, even with a name such as ''[[EvilIsSexy Vylette]]''.

* AccidentalMurder: Liz's cause of death? Being choked on with a jawbreaker that her friends (specifically, Courtney) used to gag her while fake-kidnapping her. The duct tape didn't help.

* WhatAnIdiot: Invoked in-universe, as this is pretty much Julie's reaction to Courtney upon learning she gagged Liz with a jawbreaker.

* TheSociopath: Does Courtney mourn Liz's death? Just a little. Does she care of incriminating an unknown loser whom she had sex with, just to confuse the police that ''she'' nor her "friends" were related to the case? Not a bit of remorse was even given.

* AccidentalMurder: Liz's cause of death? Being choked on with a jawbreaker that her friends (specifically, Courtney) used to gag her while fake-kidnapping her. It was also a [[SarcasmMode great and lovely]] idea to use duct-tape to make her silent.

* DeathBySex: Courtney tries to set up Liz's death as such. Either to pin her up as being abused or her not being "[[SexIsEvil so innocent and pure]] as she was thought to be". The catch? [[spoiler:It fooled the police. At first, anyway.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Marcie abandons Courtney in the end.

* SpoiledSweet: Liz is described as this in the beginning.

* DeathBySex: Courtney tries to set up Liz's death as such. Either to pin her up as being abused or her not being "[[SexIsEvil so innocent and pure]] as she was thought to be".

* TheMakeover: Fern's transformation into Vylette, in a rather... surreal sequence.

* TheNineties: ''Jawbreaker'' encapsulates the trends that were popular during the decade, such as fashion, articles and objects, {{Talk Show}}s talking about how "the crowd influences on others", the use of DawsonCasting on behalf of the movie's cast, ''Music/MarylinManson'' having a cameo in the movie... [[invoked]]

%%* ShrinkingViolet: Fern, originally.
%%* TheSociopath: Courtney.

* MakeWayForThePrincess: All the high school makes their space to the ''breathtaking'' entrance of the GilrPosse.

%%* TheNineties

* SexIsEvil: Liz was a ''virgin'', and was described and seen as a pure and kind person. Courtney, while being the mind behind the entire joke, being manipulative as possible... wasn't that ''much''.

* DeathBySex: Courtney tries to set up Liz's death as such.

%%* EngineeredPublicConfession: The ending.
* EroticEating: Courtney with her boyfriend, in a variant; as part of sex play, she makes him mime on a popsicle what he wants her to do to him.

* HumiliationConga: Happens at the HighSchoolDance thanks to the EngineeredPublicConfession.

* TheMakeover: Fern's transformation into Vylette.
%%* {{Make Way For the Princess}}es

* SexIsEvil: Liz was a virgin. Courtney -- not so much.

* DeadlyPrank: The premise of the film. Courtney and the others were going to surprise Liz for her seventeeth birthday, while ''kidnapping her'', since the prank has gotten popular with others hig schoolers... until the "joke" was on them.

''Jawbreaker'' is a 1999 film directed by Darren Stein starring [[RoseMcGowan Rose [=McGowan=]]], Rebecca Gayheart, JulieBenz, and Creator/JudyGreer.

The movie starts with the popular girls of Reagan High fake-kidnapping one of their group, Liz Purr, as part of her seventeenth birthday, only to find when they arrive that she has choked to death on the jawbreaker used to gag her. AlphaBitch Courtney Shayne then leads the others to create an elaborate cover story that would paint Liz's death as an accident resulting from a kinky sexual encounter and get them off scot-free.

One of the girls, Julie Freeman, struggles to come to terms with what they've done and is summarily shunned by Courtney and her lapdog Marcie Fox. On top of this, she is replaced by the geeky Fern Mayo who Courtney transforms into the glamourous Vylette in return for the girl's silence. But the attention lavished upon "Vylette" soon goes to Fern's head and she begins to encroach on Courtney's position as Queen Bee, only to discover exactly why that's a bad idea as she is publicly humiliated. Meanwhile, when Julie is given a box of Liz's possessions, she stumbles upon something that will prove to be Courtney's downfall just as she prepares to accept the title of Prom Queen that Liz's death left her free to claim.

%%* AccidentalMurder: Liz's death.

* BackstabbingTheAlphaBitch: Fern as Vylette starts to overshadow Courtney, and she knows it. That's when Courtney knocks her down a peg.

%%* DeadlyPrank: The premise of the film.

* MeaningfulName: Fern. Lampshaded when she is renamed Vylett for this very reason.

* SmokingIsGlamorous: Fern starts to smoke after "becoming" Vylett.

''Jawbreaker'' is a 1999 film directed by Darren Stein starring [[RoseMcGowan Rose [=McGowan=]]], Rebecca Gayheart, JulieBenz, and JudyGreer.

* AccidentalMurder: Liz's death.
* AlphaBitch: Courtney.
** BetaBitch: Marcie.

* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Before Liz's death, the three most popular girls fit this trope.
** Courtney: Brunette.
** Marcie: Blonde.
** Julie: Redhead.
* BrainlessBeauty: Marcie.
* DeadlyPrank: The premise of the film.

* EngineeredPublicConfession: The ending.

* GirlPosse

* {{Make Way For the Princess}}es
* ManipulativeBitch: Courtney.
* MeaningfulEcho: By Fern, see the page quote.

* TheNineties

* TwoTeacherSchool
* PopularIsDumb: Marcie.
* PunnyName: "Vera Cruz."

* ShrinkingViolet: Fern, originally.
* TheSociopath: Courtney.

* VillainProtagonist: Courtney.

* DawsonCasting: The four female main characters were well in their twenties when the film was released
** Intentionally done by the Director as an homage to films like ''Grease'' and ''Carrie'' where teens are played by actors who are clearly far too old.

''{{Jawbreaker}}'' is a 1999 film directed by Darren Stein starring [[RoseMcGowan Rose [=McGowan=]]], Rebecca Gayheart, JulieBenz, and JudyGreer.

* FootFocus: During a SplitScreenPhoneCall we get an eyeful of Julie's soles, then Fern's, then Courtney's (with Courtney's self-pedicure-in-progress filling almost the entire shot)

* FootFocus: During a SplitScreenPhoneCall we get an eyeful of Julie's soles, then Fern's, then Courtney's (with Courtney's self-pedicure-in-progress filling almost the entire shot).

* LesYay: Fern seemed to have really, ''really'' admired Liz.

* MakeWayForThePrincess: Or princesses, in this case.

* InWithTheInCrowd: Fern and Julie both apply. Marcie's talk with her father implies that this is also what happened to her.

* TheLibby: Courtney.