So Undercover

''So Undercover'' is a 2013 American crime 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 direct-to-video in the United States on February 5, 2013. The film has been released in theatres of only 13 countries worldwide. The film was held back without a release date from 2011 until 2013.

Plot

Molly Morris, a private investigator based in Dallas, takes photos of cheating men. During one of her investigations, FBI Agent Armon Ranford offers her a job with the FBI, to watch over Alex Patrone, 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 Brook Stonebridge and receives help from her father. Molly meets Sasha Stolezinsky, the head of the sorority, and other members, including Becky, Cotton, Hunter, and Alex, whom she has been hired to protect.

At first, Molly thinks that Sasha may be a suspect, but she discovers she only changed her identity from Suzy Walters so she could start a new life rather than continue to be an outcast. Molly also meets her love interest, Nicholas Dexter, another student at the college. She begins to suspect Professor Talloway, when she discovers that Alex secretly goes off to his home on a lake.

Molly continuously reports back to Ranford, who at one point tells her that Nicholas Dexter, her love interest, is not his real name. She initially believes him, locking Nicholas up and knocking him out one night. Molly follows Alex to Talloway's home, only to discover that Talloway is actually a federal agent. She encounters a masked gunman, from whom she escapes. She realises it's Ranford, 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 FBI agents working on the case. They are hesitant to believe her at first, but Morris convinces them to help solve the case with her sorority sisters. They execute the plan, rescue Alex, and corner Ranford, who is arrested. Alex hands over an SD card containing the evidence for her father's case to Molly, who hands it over to the feds.

The FBI is pleased with Molly's work, and she is offered a job with them. She declines and instead wants to continue going to college. Two months pass, Molly iis taking photos of a guy Cotton is dating. Nicholas comes up to her, revealing they are dating and they kiss 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
* 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, 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; Eloise Mumford, Lauren McKnight, and Matthew Settle, among others were announced to be in the cast.

Filming

Principal photography began on December 13, 2010, in Mobile, Alabama, 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, but this was cancelled for undisclosed reasons.
This film's poster is a parody of the poster of the successful film Mean Girls.

Release

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, "the film will be released in October 2011 when schools are back in session." The film was not released in October 2011, though, 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. The film was set to be released in 2011, but it was released in 2013.

Critical reception

The film has received overwhelmingly negative reviews, with a "Rotten" rating of 6% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 16 reviews.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:So Undercover
2012 films
2012 action comedy films
American independent films
American action comedy films
Exclusive Media films
Films about the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Films directed by Tom Vaughan (director)
Films shot in New Orleans
Films about fraternities and sororities
Direct-to-video action comedy films
2012 independent films
Films scored by Stephen Trask
Films with screenplays by Allan Loeb
2010s English-language films
2010s American films