Genevieve (Piper Perabo - Coyote Ugly), a French foreign exchange student, comes to a small town in Texas to attend a local high school where she shacks up with the schools popular cheerleader, Starla, (Jane McGregor). Starla soon learns that Genevieve is not only smart, attractive, and naive, but quite conniving when she begins to take over Starla's life, starting with the affections of her parents, her friends and ..her boyfriend! When Starla is forced to quit the cheerleading squad after getting bad grades, Genevieve takes her place. But when Starla figures out that Genevieve deliberately set it up by giving her bad tutoring to fail all those classes, she begins an all-out personal war with hilarious consequences!