FILM 1836: JAWBREAKER
TRIVIA: Writer/director Darren Stein intentionally cast older actresses as the high school leads as an homage to films like Grease (1978) and Carrie (1976), which seemed to use actresses who were clearly in their mid-twenties.
Pam Grier's contract states that she must be in charge of doing her own hair for her films. For this film, she's wearing about three wigs blended together.
The line Courtney threatens Fern with in the bathroom ("I made you, and I can break you just as easily") is a homage to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and is the same line Dr. Frank-N-Furter uses to threaten Rocky, his creation, with.
Marilyn Manson was given his cameo part because he was engaged to Rose McGowan at the time the movie was made.
Courtney's tattoo was actually Rose McGowan's real tattoo of herself. Initially they tried to cover it up with makeup, but it didn't work. Removing with CGI was too expensive, so they opted to leave it because it added more edge to Courtney's character.
Liz Purr's parents are portrayed by P.J. Soles and William Katt, who both appeared as popular teens in the horror film Carrie (1976). In Jawbreaker (1999), they are the parents of the most popular girl in school.
Rose McGowan based Courtney, whom she described as "a young, budding sociopath", on Gene Tierney's character in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).
The band playing at the prom is The Donnas.
In the scene where Courtney is changing Ferns name she says "a fern is a plant right? Well I don't know about you but I would much rather be a flower! A Rose is too obvious, never send a rose unless dyed black as a warning." This is ironic because The character of Courtney is named Rose in real life.
