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I chose to watch the movie Stick It which is an original screenplay. Moreover, it is about a troubled girl, Haley, that gets in trouble with legal matters again and decides to take her punishment to returning to her old life of gymnastics on a team. Haley used to do gymnastics, but she ran away from the sport leaving her team behind to lose. Now she returns to her old life on a new team under a popular coach, Burt. The movie is about Haley going through obstacles of her past coming up, her future, and helping her friends become more confident and less uptight. She also helps all of them at an important event scratch which is not doing the gymnastics act but just like touching the bars but not doing flips. Thus, she helps all the girls win and …show more content…

Her films also have common themes like trying to fit in with the crowd, finding confidence, and finding the correct path not the wrong one that causes bad outcomes. She is known for writing the movie Bring It On, Aquamarine, and The Truth About Charlie. Bring It On is a movie about cheerleaders that are trying to win a championship when they find out their old caption took their best dances and performances. The themes are similar to Stick It like working together, being unique and embracing it, and making friends with your enemies. Aquamarine is different from Stick It and Bring It On because it is about a teenager discovering she is a mermaid and deals with different themes like hiding, keeping secrets, and trying to decide who to become her old self or new self. Also, The Truth About Charlie is another different film from the other ones because it does not deal with teenagers and their problems. Thus, the movie is instead about a woman who wants to divorce her husband, but she finds out he is dead and all the money they had is gone. She meets a man who thinks she has the money and demands it and she encounters more problems about her mysterious husband and the

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