Four high-school girls attempting to navigate their last day of summer in a failing town. Beset by sex, drugs, and violence, what begins as a cautionary tale of misguided youth becomes a story of atonement as our heroes discover their strength as young women and the true love that exists amongst best friends. What follows takes place over the course of 36 hours...
A typical Southern California girl succumbs to the pressures of the suburban teenage experience, and learns to see the beauty in her raw and untamed nature when she stars in a short movie screened during the High School film festival.
Left alone by her parents for the first time, a teenager finds herself on a 24-hour journey through the dark side of suburbia where an odd cast of characters all battle to control her fate.
Haunted with nightmares of his wife's recent suicide and struggling to mend the relationship with his only daughter, Richard is caught as a witness to the violence of Abner Solvie. He finds himself at the mercy of a charismatic killer and plagued by his involvement in the city's recent murders. As Abner's new found protégé, Richard is forced to adopt the mind of his sociopathic mentor in order to protect the one he loves. Richard must decide if he's willing to kill in order to keep his daughter alive.
Sam Montgomery (Hilary Duff) é uma jovem estudante do ensino médio, que vive com sua madrasta Fiona (Jennifer Coolidge) e as filhas dela, que a tratam da pior maneira possível. Sam leva uma vida sem grandes agitações e tem planos de cursar a Universidade de Princeton. Sua vida muda quando ela conhece, através da internet, seu príncipe encantado. Porém logo Sam descobre que ele é na verdade Austin Ames (Chad Michael Murphy), um garoto popular que é também jogador de futebol americano do time de sua escola. Temendo ser rejeitada por Austin, ela passa a tentar despistá-lo de todas as formas, tentando manter em segredo a identidade da garota com quem ele conversou através da internet.
