Mandy Moore and then Kate Bosworth were originally cast as Allison.
The original writer, Jessica Kaplan, died at age 24 in a small plane crash over Los Angeles' Fairfax district (6 June 2003), just before filming started. The plane was piloted by her uncle. The film is dedicated to her.
New Line Cinema had this screenplay sitting on their shelf for seven years.
Originally titled "The Powers That Be" when written in 1995, and retitled "Havoc" in early 2003.
The song that Allison sings at the high school party is "How Do You Want It?" by Tupac Shakur
The song the two girls are singing while trying drugs is "Can I Get A..." by Jay-Z. They are singing the part where Amil sings.
When Allison is at the police station after the bust on the street, the girl talking to her in cell says, "...then the cop started asking me these really dumb questions, like what's closer to you now, the moon or Europe?" That question was asked to the co-writer of the movie, Stephen Gaghan, when he was detained by drug officers during his battle with drug addiction. The whole story can be found in a Newsweek article written by Stephen Gaghan.
Hector:
[to Allison] I know everything about you. Yeah, I can see right through you. Everything to you is a fucking game. You ain't real. There's nothing real about you. Your talk ain't real, Your walk ain't real, the way you dress ain't real. You don't even copy it from the real thing, you fucking get it from the TV.
Stuart Lang:
You were arrested! With crack dealers!
Stuart Lang:
All right. We talk about it. When someone in this family has a problem, we get together and talk about it.
Allison:
Since when are you around enough to talk about anything?
Stuart Lang:
Well, I'm gonna make it real easy for you to find me - you're grounded!
Emily:
What is it's like we're on our death beds and looking back at our lives... and looking at all the guys we've liked, loved and just fucked... and it turns out, that the whole time, like we were supposed to be together.
Allison:
[Pushes Emily over an gets on top of her] I don't think I could go down on you.
Hector:
Fuckin' white people.
Allison:
We're teenagers and we're bored.
Allison:
Inside the circle and out, we live very sheltered lives... So we dress gangsta, we talk shit, so what? It's our thing. See basically, the thing to remember is that none of it really matters, we're just teenagers and we're bored. We are totally, fucking, bored.
Hector:
Want something?
Allison:
Uh, yeah, no I don't... um, no... I, not really.
Hector:
What are you smiling at?
Allison:
I'm just uh, smiling.
Hector:
What are your friends smiling at?
Allison:
I think they're having a nervous breakdown.
Hector:
So you shopping like the other night? 'Cuase you know I got the real shit, ah.
Allison:
No, I'm just looking.
Hector:
Yeah, me too. I'm just looking too.
Hooker:
[another hooker throws up] You don't got any Dilaudid or anything shoved up your ass to get her to stop doing that?
Allison:
Uh, no.
Hooker:
[two girls stand up and face her] Positive?
Allison:
You can look if you like.
Emily:
What is it's like we're on our death beds and lookinf back at our lives... and looking at all the guys we've liked loved and just fucked... and it turns out, that the whole time, like we were supposed to be together.
Hector:
What you want cabacha?
Allison:
Why did you do that to us last night?
Hector:
Do what? Huh? We did exactly what you wanted us to do. You wanted into 16th Street and you didn't fucking make it.
Allison:
You think that Emily wanted that?
Hector:
Who? Emily?
Allison:
Yeah you know her.
Hector:
Emily, cual es Emily?
[friend makes a motion to indicate small]
Hector:
Oh, si, la chiquita, la putita,huh. Yeah yeah the one who got drunk and fucking played us like Punk'd.
Allison:
No, that wasn't a game to her!
Allison:
[after scening a video of herself from the past] I remember her.
Hector:
[he's talking to Allison and a pretty Spnaish girl comes out of the room wearing a bedsheet] Yeah, be there in a minute.
[Allison gives him a withering look]
Hector:
What? You think I was in love you or something? Go home girl. I don't know where you belong, but it isn't here.
Josh Rubin:
[about Allison] Wow, I didn't know you had such a hot friend!
Mr. Rubin:
Josh, that is enough!
Emily:
[silent] Fuck you!
Stuart Lang:
So, how are things with Toby? Is he still your boyfriend?
Allison:
Yeah. I mean, I dunno. Whatever I don't believe in relationships anyway.
Stuart Lang:
Why not? Is it because of your mother and me?
Allison:
[pause]
[easily]
Allison:
Nope.
Allison:
[driving] Oh my god!
[starts laughing]
Sasha:
What?
Allison:
That guy is getting a blow job.
[laughs]
Sasha:
It's not fucking funny Allie, shut up!
Allison:
Hey, you're gonna love this
Emily:
What is it?
Allison:
Crack, cocaine.
Emily:
[shrieks] where did you get that?
Allison:
a lady never tells
Emily:
How do we use it?
Allison:
So, I called the drug hotline and asked them what signs to look for if my mom smoked crack. He said little pieces of aluminum foil everywhere so
[looks at Emily]
Allison:
You want to try it right?
Emily:
yeah
Allison:
cool
[flicks on lighter]
Allison:
ready?
Emily:
We are such crackheads.
Allison:
We ARE such crackheads.
[it burns fast]
Allison:
Oh shit go!
Emily:
What?
Allison:
Go! Just inhale it!
[it flies up]
Allison:
ah!
Emily:
Ah!
Allison:
[coughs] where'd it go?
Emily:
Ow, it hit me right there.
[touches arm]
Allison:
Ohh, ohh, ohh I'm sorry
[kisses it]
Allison:
[strokes Emily's cheek ] Whitney's right
Together:
Crack is whack!
Emily:
Maybe your mom has a fucking suicide kit handy!
Allison:
Yeah,
[laughs]
Allison:
probobly... she has like, pot... you ok in there?
Emily:
Yeah I'm fine.
Allison:
[pause]
[leans head against door]
Allison:
I'm not leaving.
Allison:
I can't believe you think Emily got raped and I just hung around and watched.
Stuart Lang:
No one's saying that.
Lawyer:
Detective, Allie can't be of any use to you. She didn't see anything, she can't identify anybody.
Allison:
This is insane. I don't know anything about a rape.
Emily:
The one fucking time that I really, really needed you, you didn't have my back.
Chino:
Que haces con esta pinche cabacha?
Hector:
hey hey cool it. she's with me.
Chino:
[quietly] she didn't fuck you before you think she'll fuck you now?
Hector:
hey, no chingas she will.
[Chino leaves]
Allison:
I don't think he likes me.
Emily:
[throws die] Three. I can handle three. It's just sex.
Amanda:
Guys, this is crazy whack. I just had to say that.
Manuel:
What's your name?
Amanda:
Amanda.
[nervous]
Manuel:
Amanda huh? You want to smoke some crack?
Amanda:
Uh, no.
Allison:
[after being arrested] I don't want any soup mom!
Stuart Lang:
What were you doing downtown anyway?
Allison:
I was sick of this phony life.
Joanna Lang:
Now stop this, its going to go away.
[pause]
Joanna Lang:
Chicken or rice?
Continuity: The urine on Toby's pants disappears between shots.
Continuity: When Allison is asking the boy shooting the film if he wants to sleep with her and begins seducing him, her pants go from buttoned to unbuttoned and back again.
Continuity: While Toby raps, the sleeves of his sweater are up to his elbows. In the next shot, the sleeves are down to his wrist. And the shot after that, the sleeves are back up to his elbows.
Continuity: When the girls go out to the bar and Allison is talking to Richard, in one shot her purse is on the counter. Then she's putting it on her shoulder, and in the next shot, it's back on the counter before he gives her the "blow".
Revealing mistakes: When Allison is talking to her dad at work, he has a water bottle in his hands when the camera is on him the lid is on, but when it turns to Allison the lid is off. It does this for a couple times.
References
"Primetime Live: (2002-12-04)" (2002)
- "Whitney's right." "Crack is whack!" (direct quote from Whitney Houston's 4 December 2002 interview with Diane Sawyer)
"Punk'd" (2003)
- "Yeah, yeah, the one who got drunk and fucking played us like Punk'd"