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hide her death; then they try to deflect
attention from themselves. During the
Special to The Jewish News
course of Jawbreaker, allegiances shift: a
social outcast makes a Faustian bargain
ome of the sweetest candies
to become popular, while one teen
are sour as death inside."
queen begins to seriously examine the
Darren Stein wrote that
price of her elevated status.
line for a police detective to
"Jawbreaker is about female power
members
say when interrogating the
and domination,"
of a powerful high
asserts Darren Stein,
school clique after
its 27-year-old
one member has
Twenty-seven-year-old
writer/director, in
mysteriously died,
Los Angeles.
California filmmaker
but it's a perfect
Growing up in the
summation of the
nearby San Fernando
Darren Stein talks
themes in his dark
Valley, Stein spent
satirical comedy,
about the teen film craze his own adolescence
Jawbreaker.
attending Harvard
Of the four girls
b
High School, at the
and
his
new
movie,
who ruled the
time an exclusive
social scene,
all-boys school, but
`jawbreaker;"
a
parody
Elizabeth Purr was
that didn't stop him
known as "the
of
the
high
school
from marveling at
Princess Di of
the social power of
Reagan High." She
comedy
and
horror
flicks
"valley girls" who
ruled with kindness
held court at the
and compassion.
of the past 20 years.
local mall.
On her 17th birth-
He also spent his
day, her best friends
time absorbing a
kidnap her as a
vast number of teenage/high school
prank, but before covering her mouth
movies, not realizing that he was
with tape, one girl shoves a jawbreaker
doing
research for Jawbreaker, which
in Elizabeth's mouth. It's a whim that
spoofs and embraces the genre.
proves to be fatal.
Stein's own post-bar mitzvah exis-
At first, the terrified trio conspires to
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