Bring It On

Director: Peyton Reed

2000 / 98min / DCP

Torrance Shipman (Dunst), the new captain of the defending champion Rancho Carne High School cheer squad in San Diego, runs into an unexpected issue on the way to the team’s sixth straight national trophy: her predecessor, it turns out, copied all of their award-winning choreography from the East Compton Clovers, an all-Black rival squad, and new Clovers captain Isis (Gabrielle Union) is looking to take the title that’s rightfully theirs. Packing insights on race, privilege, and cultural appropriation into a bright, bouncy, altogether irresistible teen classic, with an indefatigably sunny Dunst displaying the full range of her comic talent. “The Citizen Kane of cheerleader movies.”—Roger Ebert

Introduction from Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair contributor and author of Bring It On: The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie That Changed, Like, Everything (No, Seriously) on Wednesday, August 9th