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  • Best Known for the Fanservice:
    • This is the one where you see Denise Richards' breasts and she makes out with Neve Campbell's body double, right? The film gained notoriety for its sex scenes – including a scene of lesbianism between Campbell and Richards, and another depicting a threesome between the two actresses and Dillon.
    • Outside of the sex scenes, Richards exiting a pool with an unrealistically see-through blue bathing suit is the most well known scene.
  • Designated Hero: Suzie, despite her actions being just as despicable as everyone else's, if not moreso.
  • Heartwarming Moments: With her fortune intact, Suzie makes sure to give a chunk of it to her surrogate family, Ruby and Walter.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Suzie Toller is a teenage girl from the wrong side of the tracks, masking her genius-level intellect by appearing as white trash. After one of her best friends was murdered by corrupt cop Ray Duquette, who then busted her on a bogus charge, Suzie vowed revenge. She hatches a plot wherein Suzie, her guidance counselor Sam Lombardo and Kelly Van Ryan, the rich girl Sam was sleeping with, are able to con Kelly's mother Sandra Van Ryan out of millions of dollars by having both girls falsely accuse Sam of rape, then cracking on the stand and opening the Van Ryans to a countersuit. Suzie also ordered Sam to draw Ray Duquette into the scheme by convincing him that he and Sam would get rid of both girls and split the money between the two of them instead of three-ways. After multiple betrayals and counter-betrayals and even faking her own death, at the end Suzie is the only conspirator left standing: a high-school drop-out responsible for several murders with a fortune safely stored away in an overseas account.
  • So Bad, It's Good: It was billed as a thriller, but it plays like a spoof. In addition to some truly horribly staged scenes and awful dialogue, it has some exceptional scenery chewing from Denise Richards and Kevin Bacon. Only Bill Murray seemed to be aware that the movie was meant to be tongue in cheek (which is even more hilarious since Kevin Bacon was the movie's executive producer). The film's twist ending, though not too difficult to either see coming or figure out once revealed, was fully explained with supplemental scenes in the end credits that fill in the gaps. It also has a great Gambit Pileup story buried under bad writing and mediocre acting. It's like watching a movie of a Carl Hiaasen novel, certainly more than Striptease.
  • Squick: In The Reveal during the end credits, Sam is shown being unable to pull Suzie's teeth with a wrench. Then he turns away in horror when she does it to herself.
  • Tear Jerker: Sandra's hysterical reaction to finding Kelly's body, as well as the sight of her crying while attending Ray's hearing indicates that no matter how vapid and superficial she was, she's devastated at the death of her daughter. Especially if you consider the Fridge Horror of realizing that she's lost both her husband and her child within a very short period of time.
  • Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: One complaint about the film is that most of the characters are deceiving assholes and there’s not one character who has ANY redeeming qualities. It can make it hard to care by the time the film ends.

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