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Released
2001 · FILM

Sugar & Spice

A group of high-spirited cheerleaders, led by the fearless A-Squad, resort to a daring after-school project—bank robbery—to save their friend Diane, blending sweetness and chaos in a heist that redefines teen rebellion.

“Why would the most popular girl in school wear a mask?”

Directed by
Francine Mcdougall
Written by
Mandy Nelson
Runtime
81 min
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

When Jack and Diane find themselves in an unexpected adult situation, the A-Squad comes to their rescue. In order to help their friend Diane, the A-Squad goes where no cheerleader has gone before: taking on a little after-school project known as bank robbery. But the A-Squad does things their way -- with sugar and spice -- forever changing their friendship, their future and the nation's notion of teen spirit.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Leland GrayShot by Robert BrinkmannScored by Mark MothersbaughDesigned by Jeff Knipp

Box Office

2001 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$13.3M

Budget$11.0M
Worldwide gross$13.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.9M — 44% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.0M — 53% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,150 theaters

Also known as

  • Sugar and Spicede
  • Ingenuas y peligrosases
  • Bad Girlsfr

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