As a young child, Violet (Jaime Pressly of My Name is Earl), her sister Ivy (the only - tenuous - relation to "Ivy" in "Poison Ivy") and her mother are thrown out of the house when her mother is found to be having an affair with what appears to be the gardener.
This is a problem not because her mother is married to the man of the house, as you might expect (and as might be normal), but because she is also having an affair with the man of the house, and this comes to light in loud fashion when the woman of the house walks in. Thus, they are kicked out, and have to find a new place to live.
Several years later, as a precocious teen on the verge of - legal - womanhood, Violet returns to the house to claim what she views as hers. The only problem is that she has a bit of a violent streak in her to get it (well, that and the fact that it is in no way hers).
Her first order of business is to separate her former best friend, Joy, from her rich and disapproving friends. This is done easily enough by showing up and getting them into compromising positions. Next, she manages to get Joy's boyfriend, Michael, into one sticky situation after another, proving that men are easily swayed.
Not to leave anyone out, Joy eventually takes on Ivan, Joy's father, but that eventually proves to be a bit too much for Joy to take when she sees the two of them in a bizarre leather fantasy scene, and it seems that Joy will have to rush her plans a bit, and have to kill Mrs. B, the housekeeper, who has been onto Joy all along.
In the end, it is just Joy and Violet against one another, as everyone else appears to be dead, and that's about the only saving grace of this film, in that there isn't any last-minute reprieve for anyone. Even at a short running time of 95 minutes, this film was about half an hour too long.
Rated R for strong sexuality, and for some language and drug content.
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