Josie and the Pussycats is a 2001 comedy film released by Universal Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 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.