Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 comedy film released by Universal Studios and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. It was directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan. The film is loosely based upon the Archie comic of the same name.

Plot

Wyatt Frame (Alan Cumming) is a record executive working for record label MegaRecords. The label, headed by the trendy and scheming Fiona (Parker Posey), pumps out pop bands and, through an arrangement with the United States government, get teens to buy their records and follow "a new trend every week" by putting subliminal messages under the music. The Government's motive in the scheme is to help build a robust economy from the "wads of cash" teenagers earn from babysitting and minimum wage jobs. When a member of Wyatt's wildly successful boy band, Du Jour, uncovers one such subliminal message and asks Wyatt about it aboard their private jet, Wyatt parachutes out with the pilot, leaving the plane to crash and apparently killing Du Jour.

Wyatt lands just outside the town of Riverdale, and meets Josie (Rachael Leigh Cook), Melody (Tara Reid), and Valerie (Rosario Dawson), the financially struggling The Pussycats. He offers them a lucrative record deal and flies them off to New York City where they are renamed Josie and the Pussycats. All goes well, with instant popularity for the band until Valerie gets frustrated that the focus of the band is not on them as a whole, but rather Josie. Melody, too simple to notice the attention Josie receives, uses her uncanny behavioral perception and becomes suspicious of Fiona and Wyatt.