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John Tucker Must Die (2006)

★ 6.1 · 1,463 ratings on TMDB

Don't get mad. Get even.

John Tucker Must Die poster★ 6.1

After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart, while destroying his reputation.

DirectorBetty Thomas
CastArielle Kebbel, Ashanti, Brittany Snow, Jenny McCarthy, Jesse Metcalfe, Kevin McNulty
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

John Tucker Must Die keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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