ST. TRINIAN'S
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St Trinian's is the sixth in a long-running series of films based on the works of cartoonist Ronald Searle. The first four films form a series, starting with The Belles of St Trinian's in 1954, with sequels in 1957, 1960, 1966 and 1980.
The 2007 release, coming 27 years after the last entry and 53 years after the first film, is a rebooting of the franchise, rather than a direct sequel, with certain plot elements borrowed from the first movie.
St Trinian's is an anarchic school for uncontrollable girls. The film opens with meek and timid Annabelle Fritton, niece of the highly eccentric headmistress Miss Camilla Dagey Fritton, being admitted to the school by her father Carnaby. She meets Kelly Jones, head girl, who shows her around the school and introduces the various cliques in the school - Posh Totty (slang for gorgeous upper class girls), Chavs, Emos, Geeks and First Years. (Two of the First Years are twins and described as Dolchester's answer to The Sopranos). The girls trick Annabelle (involving a lot of horrible gloop), causing her to take a shower. Meanwhile, they steal her clothes as well as her towel while another girl secretly changes the water's temperature to cold. Annabelle doesn't realise that she is being broadcast on YouTube by the other girls while running naked from the shower to the dormitory. She phones Carnaby and demands to be taken away from the school but Carnaby pretends to lose reception. In frustration Annabelle shoots her mobile phone with a hockey stick across the hall until it hits a marble statue, smashing it into pieces. A teacher catches Annabelle in the act and instantly drafts her into the school's hockey team.
Flash Harry pays a visit to the school and makes a deal with the girls for some lab-made vodka. The last batch had side effects including blindness, paralysis, and death, all symptoms of methanol poisoning, indicating lack of care in distillation of the alcohol. He refuses to sell 'designer tampons' and is in the process of looking over some drugs when Kelly interrupts him. He asks her to go out to a Chinese restaurant with him which she refuses, saying "I don't mix business with pleasure."
A few days later the school hosts a hockey match against Annabelle's old school - their rivals Cheltenham Ladies' College, captained by Verity Thwaites. The girls give a hostile and violent welcome to their visitors and the match ends in a brawl between the two schools. During the match, Verity's father, education minister Geoffrey Thwaites, an old (and possible romantic) acquaintance of Miss Fritton is investigating the school. He is planning to force it to bring up its very poor standards, and to use it as an example to other schools. While he uncovers many disreputable aspects of the school such as the illegal vodka business, he is eventually thrown out the window into a fountain by the Posh Totties when they catch him with his pants down.
The morning after the victory party a banker stops by to inform Miss Fritton that St. Trinians owes the bank over half a million pounds.
Some days later through electronic spy cameras, the girls and especially Annabelle witness Carnaby attempting to broker a business deal with Miss Fritton. It is revealed to them that St Trinian's owes half a million pounds to the bank and is in danger of being declared bankrupt. Carnaby wants to sell the school, that way they can repay the debt and split the profits. She refuses, saying "What about Annabelle?". Carnaby reveals his true feelings about Annabelle - he does not like her and is not sure if he is her father. Clearly Annabelle is upset and goes to see Miss Fritton that evening. It is revealed that she is a very good painter. Camilla then makes Annabelle feel better by helping her to release her anger and making her feel like part of the family.
The girls hatch a plan to steal the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring. They organize a school trip to the London National Art Gallery where it is being held, to scope out the scene. After seeing how difficult it is going to be, they decide to use the TV Quiz Show 'School Challenge' as a cover to get into the building. The finals of the competition would be filmed in the grand hall of the gallery.
As they make their plans, education minister Geoffery Thwaites decides to show the media exactly what St Trinian's is really like. However every classroom is in perfect order having been forewarned. As the press are right outside a classroom that would see the end of St Trinian's (the preparations for the theft of the artwork are all over the place) Annabelle manages to distract them by revealing that Verity, Thwaite's daughter, was the school bully at her old school. Miss Fritton arrives down the stairs dressed as Queen Elizabeth I. In the midst of the conversation between them, Thwaites deliberately sends the school's dog Mr. Darcy flying out the window before crashlanding in the lawnmower instantly killing him. The whole school shows their respect for their headmistress, mourning the loss of the little dog. In the middle of the night Annabelle is woken up by the girls and given a confidence-boosting make-over. Afterwards when Kelly asks Annabelle "How do you feel?", she says she feels "like a Saint Trinian".
Kelly tries to persuade Flash Harry to act as a prestigious gay German art dealer named Gerhardt von Struebel so that he can sell a false version of the painting to Carnaby. He feels unsure but Kelly persuades him to comply (as he secretly has feelings for her, although she knows about them and uses them to her advantage; and he does not want to look stupid in front of her). The school team for School Challenge consists of the three Posh Totties, Chelsea, Peaches and Chloe. They reach the final by cheating (against Ampleforth two of the First Years steal the answers before the match; against Bedales they lace their opponents' drinks with magic mushrooms; the Eton team is rendered clueless by their seduction).
During the final Kelly, Taylor and Andrea foil the security for the painting that they're after and eventually retrieve it but on the way back the cable that they used to climb over the top of the audience of the final of School Challenge snaps just after Taylor and Andrea get over to the other side. Kelly gets stuck with no way to get to other side again. Miss Fritton sees that Kelly is trapped and goes to help, having to also distract Thwaites through a combination of liquor and seduction. Meanwhile Annabelle takes care of Verity's threat to foil the girls' escape route by throwing her mobile phone with her hockey stick at Verity knocking her out.
The school successfully gets the painting and sells it to Carnaby who fails to realise it is not the genuine print which has been returned to the police under the cover of St Trinian's finding it. They receive a reward of £50,000 for returning the painting. With the cash from Carnaby they pay back the money owed to the bank and St Trinian's stays in business.
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