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Cinema: Fired Up - When boys meet girls
Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen) are top scorers on the Ford High School football team...both on and off the field. As adept with a ball as they are with the ladies, they’ve conquered the school’s hotties and are approaching girl boredom as they’re faced with another scorching stint at summer football camp. But then they overhear the girls talking about cheerleading camp, and Nick hatches a scheme for them to join up: instead of running around in the sweltering heat with a bunch of sweaty guys, they’ll be awash in a sea of gorgeous, athletic young women who can all do back flips and the splits. Shawn and Nick trade their footballs for pom-poms and prepare to get Fired Up!

At first their plan works like a dream – cheer camp becomes a blur of lips, lifts, and launches as the cheerleaders succumb to the guys’ charms one after another. But when it becomes clear that the addition of the guys has given their school’s historically awful cheer squad a chance at success, the guys’ participation becomes more than a lark. And when Shawn actually falls for squad captain Carly (Sarah Roemer), who’s been suspicious of their motives from the start, their real reason for attending camp becomes apparent and threatens to topple the squad’s newfound success. Ultimately, to win Carly over, the boys must learn some new moves and unleash their inner spirit to prove their intentions before the all-important cheer competition finals.

Will Gluck makes his feature directorial debut with Fired Up!, starring Nicholas D’Agosto, Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah Roemer, Molly Sims, Danneel Harris, Adhir Kalyan, AnnaLynne McCord, with Philip Baker Hall and John Michael Higgins. The screenplay is by Freedom Jones, and the film is produced by Matthew Gross, Peter Jaysen, and Charles Weinstock. Gluck also executive produced the film along with Paddy Cullen, Marcy Gross, and Ann Weston.

The film’s behind-the-pyramids creative team includes director of photography Thomas Ackerman, ASC, production designer Marcia Hinds, editor Tracey Wadmore-Smith, A.C.E., and costume designer Mynka Draper. The music is by Richard Gibbs, music supervision is by Wende Crowley and casting is by Lisa Miller Katz, CSA.

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