The lush, color-saturated lensing by ace d.p. There’s even a mildly diverting bit of twistiness in the last act, efficiently helmed by Tom Vaughn, whose career has gone a little awry since his auspicious feature debut, “Starter for 10,” another campus-set pic.
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Somewhat diluting Molly/Brook’s outsider status, the script devises a role for Kelly Osborne as the protagonist’s cynical English roommate, but her quips fall flat, and her utility to the plot remains a mystery, given that the character never seems to leave her room.īy the standards of teen-focused comedies, the script (credited to Allan Loeb and Steven Pearl) isn’t half bad the early reels in particular include a few zingers that the pro supporting players, especially Piven and likable ingenues Mumford and Park, pull off with aplomb. And then it’s off to the ultra-girly sorority house where Alex is living, a bitchy gynocracy run by head mean girl Sasha ( Eloise Mumford), backed by a troika of dimwitted but decorative lieutenants (Megan Park, Morgan Calhoun and Alexis Knapp). Armon believes the criminals will plant a friendly-seeming imposter in Alex’s circle of friends in order to obtain some secret MacGuffin that Alex’s dad gave her for safekeeping.Īfter a mildly amusing makeover sequence in which Molly is restyled alongside sorority-appropriate lines, Armon gives her the plausibly preppy moniker of “Brook Stonebridge,” which, in one of the pic’s funnier lines, Molly describes as sounding more like a gated community than a name. The film has a 5.0 rating on IMDb and a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.First met stalking cheating husbands with a camera, young private investigator Molly Morris (Cyrus) is recruited by FBI agent Armon Ranford ( Jeremy Piven) for a special op: Go undercover as a sorority girl at a New Orleans college in order to protect Alex (Lauren McKnight), the daughter of a high-profile witness in an organized-crime case. So Undercover grossed $2,562,285 worldwide on a $15 million budget. Warner Bros Pictures released the film theatrically in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2012. distribution rights for the film, and said that the film would have a direct-to-video release on February 5, 2013. However, Millennium Entertainment later acquired the U.S. In the United States, the film was originally scheduled for a theatrical release in October 2011 by The Weinstein Company. Filming was supposed to be held in Sydney, Australia, but this was cancelled for undisclosed reasons. On August 15, 2011, new scenes were filmed at University of California in Los Angeles and finished a few days after. Principal photography began on December 13, 2010, in Mobile, Alabama, and at Tulane University. Eloise Mumford, Lauren McKnight, and Matthew Settle, among others were announced to be in the cast. In 2010, Miley Cyrus was announced as portraying Molly Morris, Mike O'Malley would portray Molly's father, Jeremy Piven would portray Armon, Kelly Osbourne would portray Becky, and Josh Bowman would portray Nicholas. I'm Like Sooo Undercover (working title).Ari Daniel Pinchot (executive producer).
Miley Cyrus - Molly Morris / Brooke Stonebridge.A tough, street-smart private eye is hired by the FBI to go undercover in a college sorority.
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