Here's my second installment of my new segment, Karma is a BITCH. This character is one I absolutely adore, yet hate at the same time. Rose McGowan does an amazing job as the beautiful and heartless Courtney Shayne. She's described in the movie as "Satan in Heels" and definitely lives up to it.
Courtney from Jawbreaker
The movie begins with three teenage girls playing an innocent prank of one of their friends for her birthday. An innocent prank that goes terribly wrong. Courtney and her pals, Julie and Marcie sneak into Liz's room one morning before school and kidnap her. They stick a jawbreaker in her mouth and then tape it shut and tie her up, then put Liz in the trunk. After drving to their favorite breakfast spot, they get out of the car to surprise Liz only to find that she's dead from choking on the jawbreaker.
As if that's not bad enough, the girls get sucked into Courtney's master plan of trying to cover up Liz's death. They go home and put her body back in bed and act as if nothing ever happened. When Julie threatens to tell Courtney says, "One word and you perish". Julie is outcast and replaced by a geeky girl named Fern who overheard the girls talking about what happened to Liz. Apparently a makeover and popularity is supposed to be enough to make someone keep quiet about a murder.
Everything is going smoothly for Courtney. She has control, popularity, and is even voted prom queen. But all that is ruined when her speech is interrupted by a recording of her. Over the speakers the entire school hears "I killed Liz. I killed the teen dream. Deal with it". Julie had a recordable birthday card of Liz's in her hands the day they brought her body back home, and Courtney didn't realize it. Serves her right for being such a bitch. How's that for a yearbook photo, hunny?
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