<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $68.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> John Tucker Must Die is a 2006 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Betty Thomas . The film is about a trio of girls (played by Arielle Kebbel, Sophia Bush, and Ashanti) who plot to break the heart of manipulative basketball star John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) after they learn he has been secretly dating all three and pledging each is "the one". They recruit cute wallflower Kate (Brittany Snow) in their scheme to publicly humiliate the cad . Released in North America on July 29, 2006, the film made $68 million worldwide . </P> <P> The movie begins with Kate (Brittany Snow) discussing her mother Lori's (Jenny McCarthy) series of bad relationships which always causes them to move to a new town . She and her mother move to a suburb of Portland, Oregon and Kate gets a job as a waitress . While at work, she sees popular local boy John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) on dates with three different girls: Carrie (Arielle Kebbel), a chronic overachiever; Heather (Ashanti), who is head cheerleader; and Beth (Sophia Bush) a promiscuous and liberal vegan activist . Kate learns from a co-worker that he dates girls from different cliques at his school so that they never interact and convinces the girls he dates to keep their relationships secret . </P> <P> One day in gym class, Kate, Carrie, Heather and Beth end up on the same team for a volleyball game . During the game, Carrie brags about being with John Tucker, and the girls learn about his scheme . Carrie, Heather and Beth begin fighting . Kate tries to intervene, only to get all four of them sent to detention for the fight . Later that evening, the girls enlist Kate's help in seeking revenge against John Tucker . Meanwhile, Kate becomes friends with John's brother Scott (Penn Badgley), better known as "The Other Tucker". The girls' initial attempts to undo John (making people believe he has genital herpes and with Heather undermining his confidence by pranking him with estrogen, causing him to become weak and say strange things about himself) initially work in humiliating John, but eventually backfire as John manages to use them to his advantage . After he breaks up with all three girls, they agree that breaking his heart is the ideal revenge . They then enlist Kate to be the heartbreaker . </P>

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