{{Infobox Film 
 | name = Sugar & Spice
 | image = Movie sugar and spice poster.jpg
 | caption = 
 | director = Francine McDougall 
 | writer = Mandy Nelson
 | starring = Marla Sokoloff,<br>Marley Shelton,<br>Mena Suvari,<br>Melissa George,<br>Rachel Blanchard
 | producer = Wendy Finerman 
 | distributor = New Line Cinema 
 | budget = ~ US$11,000,000
 | released = 26 January 2001 (<small>USA</small>) 
 | runtime = 81 min 
 | language = English 
 | imdb_id = 0186589 
 | }}
'''''Sugar & Spice''''' is a 2001 feature film directed by Francine McDougall. It was filmed entirely in the Minnesota cities of Anoka, Apple Valley, Eagan, and St Paul.

== Cast ==
*Marla Sokoloff - Lisa Janush
*Marley Shelton - Diane Weston 
*Melissa George - Cleo Miller
*Mena Suvari - Kansas Hill
*Rachel Blanchard - Hannah Wald 
*Alexandra Holden - Fern Rogers
*Sara Marsh - Lucy Whitman
*James Marsden - Jack Bartlett

== Plot ==
Diane Weston (Marley Shelton) is a popular high school cheerleader whose life revolves around her boyfriend Jack (James Marsden) and cheerleading, as she is the captain of her school's cheerleading "A-Squad". However, when Diane becomes pregnant by Jack, her life falls apart as her parents disown her and kick her out of their home. Moving in with Jack, the two quickly get jobs (Jack working in a video store, Diane as a bank teller in a grocery store's in-house bank). Diane quickly realizes that Jack is too naive, when it comes to finances, in order to provide Diane and their child with the life she feels is entitled to her. Diane confides to her fellow cheerleaders about her problems and the group come up with an illegal way for Diane to make the money she needs to support her family: robbing banks. 

With advice provided by the imprisoned mother of a fellow cheerleader (Mena Suvari), Diane and her friends don matching spandex bodysuits and identical blonde latex masks and rob a grocery store bank. Dubbed "The Betty Gang" by the media, the group successfully carry out the  heist but not before rival B-Squad cheerleader Lisa Janusch discovers that her nemesis Diane and her friends are The Betty Gang. Though she goes to the police with the information, Diane confronts Lisa off-camera before the group is arrested and makes a deal with her: in exchange for Lisa providing the group an alibi and recanting all prior statements to the police, Diane will resign from the A-Squad and personally promote Lisa not only to A-Squad status, but also as the new A-Squad leader.

During the film's epilogue, it is revealed that Diane ultimately tells Jack that her share of the stolen money was won via the lottery. Jack believes Diane and the two marry. Jack goes on to become a senator, and Diane reconciles with her family, who proceed to set up a scholarship for pregnant teenagers. In a picture Diane and Jack are shown to have twin sons and a baby girl.

{{Infobox Film
|DT = Sugar & Spice
|OT = Sugar & Spice
|PL = USA
|PJ = 2001
|LEN = 78
|OS = Englisch
|AF = 12
|REG = Francine McDougall
|DRB = Mandy Nelson
|PRO = Wendy Finerman, Greg Mooradian, Matt Moore, Claire Rudnick Polstein
|MUSIK = Mark Mothersbaugh
|KAMERA = Robert Brinkmann
|SCHNITT = Sloane Klevin
|DS = 
*Marla Sokoloff: Lisa Janusch 
*Marley Shelton: Diane Weston 
*Melissa George: Cleo Miller 
*Mena Suvari: Kansas Hill 
*Rachel Blanchard: Hannah Wald 
*Alexandra Holden: Fern Rogers 
*Sara Marsh: Lucy Whitman 
*James Marsden: Jack Bartlett 
*Sean Young: Mrs. Hill 
*W. Earl Brown: Hank Rogers 
*Adam Busch: Junge 
*Jake Hoffman: Ted 
*Nate Maher: Chris 
}}
'''Sugar & Spice''' ist eine US-amerikanische 2001.

== Handlung ==

Die befreundeten Diane Weston, Kansas Hill, Hannah Wald, Lucy Whitman und Cleo Miller sind Cheerleader an einer High School. Sie gehören dem ''Team A'' an, das von Diane Weston angeführt wird. Die Mädchen sind den Feindseligkeiten der dem ''Team B'' angehörenden Lisa Janusch ausgesetzt.

Weston geht mit Jack Bartlett, dem Quarterback des Footballteams, aus und wird von ihm schwanger. Da die Mädchen Geld brauchen, beschließen sie, eine Bank in ihrer Stadt auszurauben. Eines der Mädchen will zuerst nicht mitmachen, es erscheint jedoch am Ort des Verbrechens zu verabredeter Zeit.

Die Mädchen benutzen einen bestimmten Stunt, um an die Beobachtungskamera zu kommen und sie funktionsunfähig zu machen. Die zufällig anwesende Janusch bemerkt leise, dass das springende Mädchen von drei und nicht von nur zwei anderen gesichert werden sollte. Etwas später werden die Mädchen in der Schule verhaftet; in diesem Augenblick überreicht Janusch den Mädchen ein Schreiben der ''American Association of Cheerleading'', in dem das ''Team A'' wegen der ungenügenden Sicherung disqualifiziert wird.

Die Mädchen suchen nach einem Ausweg und versprechen Janusch – die Kronzeugin der Ermittlungsbehörden wird – die Stellung der Anführerin des ''Teams A''. Daraufhin widerruft Janusch ihre Aussagen, die Mädchen werden freigelassen.

== Kritiken ==

James Berardinelli schrieb auf ''ReelViews'', der Film biete mehr Pointen als ''Weil ich ein Mädchen bin'' oder ''Girls United''. Er verhöhne sämtliche Aspekte des High-School-Lebens. Manchmal wirke er „''clever''“, manchmal „''doof''“. <ref>[http://www.reelviews.net/movies/s/sugar_spice.html Kritik von James Berardinelli]</ref>