So Undercover

So Undercover
British theatrical release poster
Directed by	Tom Vaughan
Produced by	Steven Pearl Allan Loeb Tish Cyrus Nigel Sinclair Tobin Armbrust
Written by	Allan Loeb Steven Pearl
Starring	Miley Cyrus Jeremy Piven Mike O'Malley Josh Bowman Kelly Osbourne Megan Park
Music by	Stephen Trask
Cinematography	Denis Lenoir
Edited by	Michael Berenbaum Wendy Greene Bricmont
Production company	Exclusive Media Group Crystal City Entertainment Scarlet Fire Entertainment Hope Town Entertainment
Distributed by	Millennium Entertainment
Release dates	December 6, 2012 (2012-12-06) (United Arab Emirates) February 5, 2013 (2013-02-05) (United States)
Running time	94 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English

So Undercover is a 2012 American action-comedy film directed by Tom Vaughan and written by Allan Loeb and Steven Pearl. Starring Miley Cyrus, Jeremy Piven, and Mike O'Malley, the film was released for the first time in the United Arab Emirates on December 6, 2012 and released direct-to-video in the United States on February 5, 2013.^[2] The film has been released in theatres of only 13 countries worldwide.

Plot

Molly Morris (Cyrus), a private investigator based in Dallas, takes photos of cheating men. During one of her investigations, F.B.I. Agent Armon Ranford (Piven), offers her a job with the F.B.I., to watch over Alex Patrone (Lauren McKnight), the daughter of a Senator, who was involved in an organized crime case. Molly is reluctant at first, but ultimately decides to accept Ranford's offer. She goes undercover as a sorority student named Brooke Stonebridge. She meets Sasha Stolezinsky (Eloise Mumford), the head of the sorority and other members, including Becky, Cotton, Hunter, and Alex, whom she has been hired to protect. At first, she suspects that Sasha may be hiding something, but as it turns out, she only changed her identity from Suzy Walters, so she start a new life, rather than be an outcast. Molly also meets her love interest, Nicholas Dexter (Josh Bowman), another student at the college. Molly begins to suspect that one of her professors, Professor Talloway (Matthew Settle), when she discovers that Alex secretly goes off to his home on a lake. She continuously reports back to Ranford, who at one point tells her that Nicholas Dexter is not his real name. She does not believe him, and soon figures out that Ranford is not who he says he is. One night she follows Alex to Talloway's home, only to discover that her professor is actually a federal agent. She encounters a gunman, who doesn't kill her. She figures out that Ranford is behind the mask, who drives off with a kidnapped Alex and soon finds Talloway injured from a gunshot wound outside his home. When she returns to the sorority house, she encounters two federal agents working on the case. They are hesitant at first, but Morris convinces them to help her solve the case, with the help of her sorority sisters. They execute the plan, rescue Alex, and corner Ranford, who is arrested. Alex hands over a SD card, with the evidence in her father's case, to Molly. She hands over to the F.B.I. Molly's father, Sam Morris (O'Malley), who helped her with the case, greets her and meets Nicholas. The F.B.I. is pleased with Molly's work, and she is offered to work for them. She declines, and instead wants to continue at college. Two months pass, and she is taking photos of a guy Cotton is dating. Nicholas comes up to her, revealing they are dating and they kissed as the film ends.

Cast

• Miley Cyrus as Molly Morris / Brooke Stonebridge
• Jeremy Piven as Armon Ranford
• Mike O'Malley as Sam Morris
• Lauren McKnight as Alex Patrone
• Josh Bowman as Nicholas Dexter
• Kelly Osbourne as Becky Slotsky
• Eloise Mumford as Sasha Stolezinsky / Suzy Walters
• Megan Park as Cotton Roberts
• Morgan Calhoun as Hunter Crawford
• Alexis Knapp as Taylor Jaffe
• Autumn Reeser as Bizzy
• Matthew Settle as Professor Talloway
• Brittney Lisette Babin as Summer

Production

Casting

In 2010, it was announced that Miley Cyrus would portray Molly Morris, Mike O'Malley would portray Molly's father, Jeremy Piven would portray Armon, Kelly Osbourne would portray Becky, Josh Bowman would portray Nicholas, Eloise Mumford, Lauren McKnight, and Matthew Settle, among others were announced.

Filming

Principal photography began in December 13, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana^[3] and at Tulane University. The filming finished in January 2011. On August 15, 2011, new scenes were filmed at University of California in Los Angeles and finished days after. Filming was supposed to be held in Sydney, Australia,^[4] but this was canceled for undisclosed reasons.

Release

Shooting for the film began in late 2010 and ended in early 2011. In March 2011, Exclusive Media Group, the film's studio announced that The Weinstein Company acquired the U.S. distribution rights for the film, and said that "the film will be released in October 2011 when schools are back in session."^[5] However, the film was not released in October 2011, but instead in September 2011. In October 2012, the U.K. theatrical trailer was released, which announced a release date of December 7, 2012. Later, distributor Millennium Films announced they had acquired the U.S. distribution rights for the film, and said that the film would have a direct-to-video release in the United States on February 5, 2013. The film has been released in theatres of nine countries worldwide; six European markets and three Asian ones. So Undercover was released in Australia on April 10 as a direct-to-video release as it was in the U.S.^[6] The film was set to be released in 2011, but it was released in 2012.

Critical reception

The film has received overwhelmingly negative reviews, with a "Rotten" rating of 6% on Rotten Tomatoes.

References

External links

• So Undercover at the Internet Movie Database
• So Undercover at Box Office Mojo
• So Undercover at Rotten Tomatoes