Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 comedy film released by Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Directed and co-written by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, the film is loosely based upon the Archie comic of the same name. The film stars Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid, and Rosario Dawson as the Pussycats with Alan Cumming, Parker Posey, and Gabriel Mann. Wyatt Frame is a record executive working for record label MegaRecords. The label, headed by the trendy and scheming Fiona, pumps out pop bands and, through an arrangement with the United States government, get teens to buy their records... and follow "a new trend every week" by putting subliminal messages under the music. The Government's motive in the scheme is to help build a robust economy from the "wads of cash" teenagers earn from babysitting and minimum wage jobs. When a member of Wyatt's wildly successful boy band, Du Jour, uncovers one such message and asks Wyatt about it aboard their private jet, Wyatt parachutes out with the pilot, leaving the plane to crash and apparently killing Du Jour.
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| Release date: | April 6, 2001 |
| Directed by: | Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 98 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tony DeRosa-Grund, Chuck Grimes, Marc E. Platt, Tracey Edmonds, Kenneth Edmonds |
| Editor: | Peter Teschner |
| Music by: | John Frizzell |
| Cinematography: | Matthew Libatique |
| Screenplay by: | Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan |
| Estimated budget: | $22,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Josie and the Pussycats |
| Genre: | Comedy, Musical |