But I'm a Cheerleader

Megan is a high school cheerleader with a boyfriend and a conventional life, but she does not enjoy kissing him and is more affectionate with her friends on the squad. Her parents take this as proof that she is a lesbian and send her to True Directions, a camp that claims to turn gay teenagers straight through a staged program. Megan does not consider herself gay, and she goes along with the camp's rules. Among the other young people there she meets Graham, and her feelings become harder to ignore.

Jamie Babbit directed the film, her first feature, from a screenplay by Brian Peterson. Natasha Lyonne plays Megan, Clea DuVall plays Graham, and Cathy Moriarty appears as the camp's director, Mary Brown. RuPaul plays Mike, a camp counsellor, with Melanie Lynskey and Katharine Towne in supporting roles.

Made for about one million dollars, the film took roughly three million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.9 from around fifty-one thousand votes, and on TMDB a rating of 7.1 from a much smaller number of votes. A critics' rating of 5.4 from ninety-two reviews sits well below both audience scores, suggesting that viewers have been warmer toward the film than reviewers were. Babbit went on to direct The Quiet, Breaking the Girls and The Stand In.