Additional information for Josie and the Pussycats, which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 11, 2001. The film is being distributed by Universal Pictures and has not yet been rated. Josie and the Pussycats has a total running time of 98 minutes.
PG
Australia
6
Germany
AL
Netherlands
T
Spain
7
Sweden
PG
UK
PG
USA
PG
Singapore
L
Iceland
K-11
Finland
PG
Canada
98min
Josie et les Pussycats
Canada
Josie et les Pussycats
France
Josie és a vadmacskák
Hungary
Josie e as Gatinhas
Brazil
Josie i kociaki
Poland
Josie y las melódicas
Spain
April 06, 2001
USA
April 09, 2001
USA
April 11, 2001
USA
June 14, 2001
Australia
July 06, 2001
Iceland
July 20, 2001
Sweden
July 27, 2001
Italy
July 27, 2001
Poland
August 02, 2001
Israel
August 10, 2001
Denmark
August 23, 2001
Germany
August 23, 2001
Switzerland
August 24, 2001
Ireland
August 24, 2001
UK
September 07, 2001
Spain
September 12, 2001
Belgium
October 25, 2001
Hungary
February 19, 2002
Argentina
April 09, 2002
Netherlands
April 12, 2002
Norway
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A girl group find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy to deliver subliminal messages through popular music in this send up of the music industry and pop culture.
Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) is a record executive, working for record label MegaRecords. The label, headed by the trendy and scheming Fiona (Parker Posey) 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. These messages change weekly; a fill-in-the-blank phrase of the film is [Blank] is the new [blank], such as Orange is the new pink! 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 subliminal message and, with innocent concern, asks him about it aboard Du Jours private jet, Wyatt parachutes out with the pilot, leaving the plane to crash.He lands just outside the town of Riverdale, and desperate for a replacement for Du Jour, he meets Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid), and Valerie (Rosario Dawson): the financially struggling The Pussycats. He offers them a lucrative record deal and flies them off to Hollywood where they are renamed Josie and the Pussycats. All goes well, with instant popularity for the band until Valerie gets frustrated that the focus of the band is not on them as a whole, but rather Josie. Melody, too simple to notice the attention Josie receives, uses her uncanny behavioral perception and becomes suspicious of Fiona and Wyatt.Because of these suspicions, an attempt is made to kill Valerie and Melody when they make an appearance without Josie on the MTV show Total Request Live. Meanwhile, Josie is brainwashed by subliminal messages in a new demo CD to try to push her into a solo career. Valerie and Melody survive the attempt on their life and return to their accommodation to discover Josie intent on a solo career. After a fight with her band mates, Josie realizes that the music influenced the fight and she goes to the studio to investigate the CD that she was given. Her suspicions are confirmed at the studio but she is caught by Fiona.MegaRecords have organized a giant pay-per-view concert, whereby it is planned to unleash their biggest subliminal message scheme yet. They try to force Josie to perform on stage, otherwise Melody and Valerie will be killed. The surviving but badly injured members of Du Jour, who were thought to be dead, appear just in time to help the Pussycats. In the resulting fight scene, Josie manages to destroy the machine used to make the subliminal messages. The message is revealed to be one that will make Fiona popular, and it is exposed that Fiona is not the all powerful and confident figure that she has appeared to be. Her poor self-esteem began in high school where she talked with a lisp. Wyatt exclaims "Lisping Lisa?" and reveals that his appearance is a disguise - that he went to the same high school as Fiona, but was known as the albino kid, "White-Ass Wally". The two fall instantly in love, and are arrested by the government for crimes against the youth of America. The MegaRecords subliminal message program had been scrapped because the government decided to use movies instead.Josie, Valerie, and Melody go on to perform the concert, and for the first time, the audience is able to judge the band on its merits, rather than be subliminally persuaded to like the band. The audience roars their approval as the film comes to a close.
Harry Elfont
Deborah Kaplan
Director(s)
Deborah Kaplan
Harry Elfont
Richard Goldwater
Dan DeCarlo
John L. Goldwater
Writer(s)
Tony DeRosa-Grund
producer
Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds
executive producer (as Kenneth Edmonds)
Tracey E. Edmonds
producer
Grace Gilroy
co-producer
Richard Goldwater
executive producer
Chuck Grimes
producer
Marc Platt
producer
Michael Silberkleit
executive producer
Producer(s)
John Frizzell
Composer(s)
Josie McCoy
Rachael Leigh Cook
Valerie Brown
Rosario Dawson
Melody Valentine
Tara Reid
Alan M.
Gabriel Mann
Alexander Cabot
Paulo Costanzo
Alexandra Cabot
Missi Pyle
Wyatt Frame
Alan Cumming
Fiona
Parker Posey
Agent Kelly
Tom Butler
Himself
Carson Daly
The Other Carson Daly
Aries Spears
Les (as Alex Martin)
Alexander Martin
Teenage Fan
Faedragh Carpenter
Teenage Fan
Justin Chatwin
Teenage Fan
Marites Pineda
Wedding Dress Girl
Kimberly Rimer
Aquarium Tour Guide
Corinne Reilly
Laughing Girl
Marnie Alton
Laughing Girl
Katharine Isabelle
Laughing Girl
Aeja Goldsmith
Megastore Girl
Nicole Fraissinet
Megastore Girl
Jessica Murdoch
Megastore Girl
Juliana Wimbles
Megastore DJ (as Zak Alam)
Zak Santiago
College Dude
David Kopp
College Dude
Sean J. Dory
Unstylish Girl
Heather Robertson
Japanese Delegate
Hiro Kanagawa
German Delegate
Kurt Max Runte
French Delegate
Claude De Martino
Chinese Delegate
Colin Foo
Sri-Lankan Delegate
Balinder Johal
Fashion Team
Enuka Okuma
Fashion Team
Clay St. Thomas
Slang Team
Erin Fitzgerald
Slang Team
Linda Ko
Herself
Serena Altschul
Himself
Mark Seliger
Herself
Sally Hershberger
Herself (as Jann T. Carl)
Jann Carl
Deborah Kaplan
Director(s)
Harry Elfont
Richard Goldwater
Dan DeCarlo
John L. Goldwater
Writer(s)
producer
Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds
executive producer (as Kenneth Edmonds)
Tracey E. Edmonds
producer
Grace Gilroy
co-producer
Richard Goldwater
executive producer
Chuck Grimes
producer
Marc Platt
producer
Michael Silberkleit
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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