Sleepover: Synopsis

SCHOOL’S OUT! Julie (Alexa Vega) has invited her best friends – Hannah (Mika Boorem), Farrah (Scout Taylor-Compton), and Yancy (Kallie Flynn Childress) – to come celebrate the last day of junior high, but what begins as just another sleepover turns into the adventure of their lives. Eager to cast off their less-than-cool reputations, the friends agree to a challenge from the “popular girls‿: an all-night scavenger hunt. With Julie’s father distracted by a home-improvement project downstairs, they sneak down the rose trellis, borrow Yancy’s electric car – well, her parents’ car – dodge Julie’s mother at a nightclub, steal a pair of boxer shorts from the cutest guy in town (Sean Faris), go to their first high school dance, fall in love, and in the end, learn a little something about themselves.

Julie and her friends Hannah, Farrah, and Yancy have a supercharged sleepover on their hands: they’ve been challenged to a scavenger hunt by “popular‿ girls Staci, Liz, Jenna, and Molly, and the winners get dibs on the coveted cool lunch spot once they start their freshman year in high school at the end of the summer. The losers have to dine al fresco … adjacent to the dumpster, and far from popularity.

Staci and her devious pals have built in several snags for Julie’s crew. They’ll have to undertake such Herculean tasks as sneaking into a “grown-up‿ nightclub, rearranging clothes on store mannequins at a crowded mall, stealing underwear from the most popular boy in the neighborhood, and somehow swiping the king or queen’s crown at the high school dance.

With the exuberance of youth and the support of true friends on their side, Julie and her pals must first escape Julie’s house. This won’t be easy, as Julie’s mom, Gabby, has the girls swear to stay indoors while she herself goes out for a night on the town with her own girlfriends. Also, Julie’s dad, Jay, is downstairs grappling with a testy faucet while her college brother, Ren, is home and underfoot.

Using their wits, a little bit of luck, and a rose trellis, the girls slip out into the night. Before this adventure is over, they will have to outrun dimwitted neighborhood security, learn to drive an impossibly small electric car, create chaos at the mall, invade a posh nightclub (where Julie’s mom is dancing the night away!), elude pesky skateboarding dorks, and come face to face with the boys of their dreams.

All in all, not bad for the first sleepover of the summer.