It must be so hard to be a rich teenager. I mean, sure, you're getting the best of everything money can buy from cars to clothes to private schools but it's just not as good as having to struggle every day. Isn't that what builds character?Alli (Anne Hathaway) and her friends sure think so. That's why they form their own gang of spoiled rich white kids who talk shit just like the people on TV and in movies. They quote rap songs without irony and really think their street cred is something that exists. That is, until they actually come across a real gang and Alli's boyfriend, Toby (Mike Vogel), gets humiliated. That's enough to convince him that he needs to stay on his own side of the street, but Alli has now had her first glimpse of real life and she wants more. She tries to cozy up to the gang leader, Hector (Freddy Rodriguez), without a clue of what that might entail.
This movie made me want to slap people. That probably means that it's a good movie because it felt like the characters were real but I was so irritated with their behavior I really couldn't see anything else. I'm surprised this never got a theatrical release in the U.S. but this was really early in Anne Hathaway's career, back when she was playing princesses and not taking her top off for every movie. Not that I'm shaming her for toplessness. If I looked like Anne Hathaway, I'd probably walk around naked constantly.
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