 josie and the pussycats is a 2001 musical comedy film released by universal pictures and metro-goldwyn-mayer. directed and co-written by harry elfont and deborah kaplan, the film is loosely based upon the archie comic of the same name, as well as the hanna-barbera cartoon. the film stars rachael leigh cook, tara reid, and rosario dawson as the pussycats, with alan cumming, parker posey, and gabriel mann in supporting roles. ==plot== wyatt frame is a record executive with record label megarecords. the label, headed by the trendy and scheming fiona, creates a series of trendy pop bands. conspiring with the united states government, they add subliminal messages under the music to get teens to buy their records and follow "a new trend every week". the government's motive is to help build a robust economy from the "wads of cash" teenagers supposedly earn from babysitting and minimum wage jobs. when a member of wyatt's wildly successful boy band, du jour, uncovers one such message and asks wyatt about it aboard their private jet, wyatt and the pilot parachute out of the plane, leaving it to crash and kill the band members. wyatt lands just outside the town of riverdale, and meets an unappreciated rock band, the pussycats: vocalist/guitarist josie mccoy, drummer mel
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