Bottoms

Bottoms is a 2023 American satirical teen sex comedy film directed by Emma Seligman, from a screenplay she co-wrote with Rachel Sennott. The film stars Sennott, Ayo Edebiri, Ruby Cruz (in her feature film debut), Havana Rose Liu, Kaia Gerber, Nicholas Galitzine, Miles Fowler, Dagmara Domińczyk, and Marshawn Lynch. Its plot follows two high school senior girls who set up a fight club as a way to hook up with cheerleaders. Bottoms premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2023, and was released in the United States on August 25, 2023, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film received positive reviews from critics. Plot PJ and Josie are unpopular lesbian best friends at Rockbridge Falls High School who have never had sex. Josie and PJ pine for popular cheerleaders Isabel and Brittany, respectively. At the beginning of their school year, PJ and Josie, joined by their friend Hazel, attend the local fair, where they witness Isabel and her boyfriend Jeff, the quarterback of the Rockbridge Falls Vikings, having an argument. Isabel gets into PJ and Josie's car, and they softly bump Jeff's knees when he refuses to move out of the way. Jeff falls to the ground, feigning severe injury. When school starts, rumors spread that PJ and Josie were in juvenile detention over the summer and that the girls had physically fought Jeff. When Principal Meyers threatens them with expulsion, Josie lies that they were simply practicing for a feminist "self-defense club". PJ and Josie decide to actually set up the self-defense club in the name of female empowerment with Hazel's help, though they secretly want to use it to get attractive girls to have sex with them. They ask Mr. G, a careless teacher currently going through a divorce, to be their advisor.