John Tucker Must Die is a 2006 American high school comedy film about a trio of girls (Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel) who plot to break the heart of manipulative basketball star John Tucker (Jesse Metcalfe) after they learn he has been secretly dating all three and pledging each is "the one". They recruit cute wallflower Kate (Brittany Snow) in their scheme to publicly humiliate the cad. The movie was released in North America on July 28, 2006.

The movie debuted at #4 on the Box office with 14.7 million dollars made in the opening week. After three weeks the movie placed #9 at the Box Office and made $40,000,000. Most of the filming was done at the Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody, British Columbia during the summer of 2005, and set in the American Pacific Northwest). The movie is the first major film to host its official homepage on MySpace; the film's production studio, 20th Century Fox, is a subsidiary of News Corporation, which owns MySpace.

In its opening weekend, the film grossed a total of $14.3 million, ranking third in the U.S. box office results for that weekend. As of August 30th, the film has grossed $39.6 million domestically.

Michael Medved gave John Tucker Must Die two stars (out of four) calling it "Slick, stupid and slightly sleazy.." and saying that about halfway through the film, the plot collapses. He added that Jenny McCarthy, in a supporting role, "..is notably better than the rest of the cast.." James Berardinelli from 'Reelviews' also disliked the film. He gave it 1.5 stars (out of 4), saying "The gulf is vast between what the studio wants us to think John Tucker Must Die is and what it really is. The marketers and publicists would have us believe this is a dark, edgy teen comedy about a band of two-timed girls taking revenge on the school's biggest hunk. Unfortunately, Betty Thomas' film is neither dark nor edgy (although it occasionally tries masquerading in those categories), nor is it particularly funny.". He goes on to mention "The movie may be able to bamboozle a few teen female fans into multiplexes, but it's hard to imagine any of them - even those who swoon at the sight of Jesse Metcalf - labeling this as better than forgettable. And for anyone outside that demographic unfortunate enough to endure John Tucker Must Die, the memory will be too painful to fade quickly." Frank Lovece of Film Journal International, conversely, praised director Betty Thomas as having " 'the touch' — the one that can take an outré idea and make it live in that seemingly impossible comic place between lighter-than-air and down-to-earth", and said the film "manages to be witty without being snarky or sophomoric".

The movie is scheduled to be released on DVD November 14, 2006.

The movie begins with Kate (Snow) relating various details of her life up to the point when the film takes place. Her mother (Jenny McCarthy) has moved towns multiple times after bad relationships with random men (Kate refers to them all as 'Skip', supposedly in relation to the way they 'skip' the relationship). This is beneficial to her and to the film as she gains an understanding of the workings of immoral men. She describes herself as always being "invisible". While working as a waitress, she sees John Tucker date three girls. The first date for the evening is with Carrie (Kebbel), a chronic over-achiever who spends her life in extra-curricular clubs and working on her college application. His second date is with Heather (Ashanti), who is the sassy, aggressive head cheerleader. John's final date for the evening is vegan activist Beth (Bush) who is rumored to be highly promiscuous. Kate learns that John dates girls from different cliques at his school so that they never interact and convinces the girls he dates to keep their liaisons secret from his father. One day in gym class, thanks to an unfortunate series of events, all the girls find out John Tucker is cheating on them. They (and Kate) receive detention for the resulting fight and she assists them in plotting retaliation.

Despite the multiple strengths of the girls, their initial attempts to undo John are eventually utilized by him and he remains as popular, if not more. Finally Carrie, Heather and Beth agree that breaking his heart is the ideal revenge and enlist Kate to do this.

Rated PG-13 for sexual content and language.

After the cast list in the credits, the movie shows the girls walking past a staircase. A teacher is walking down and drops a whole pile of papers and the papers spread all over the staircase. A group of male teachers come by and they bend down to help. When they bend down, you see different patterned thongs.

A little bit into the credits and there's a scene in Tokyo, Japan. Three girls out by a fountain looking at their cell phones and laughing: the picture on the cell phone screen is revealed to be the same picture of John Tucker in a thong earlier in the movie.