Ava and Tanzie Marchetta have it all. The heiresses to a multi-million dollar cosmetics company, the girls approach life as one big party. But when a scandal involving one of their products emerges, the girls are left penniless, homeless, and seemingly helpless. They could, of course, take the easy way out and listen to the board of directors who want to sell the company to their biggest competitor, but that would forever taint the name of their late father, who built it from the ground up. Instead, Ava and Tanzie decide to protect what is rightfully theirs. What it's going to take to do that will require them to do some things they've never really considered--growing up, taking initiative and responsibility, and asking for help from others, rather than expecting it to fall into their laps. If they can find their inner strength, they might be able to clear their father's name. If not, the party might be over--for good.

Release Date: August 18, 2006
Co-Starring: Haylie Duff(Ava Marchetta)
Anjelica Huston(Fabiella)
Brent Spiner(Tommy)
Written By: Amy Rardin
Susan Estelle Jansen
Jessica O'Toole
John Quaintance
Directed By: Martha Coolidge
Hilary Plays:Tanzie Marchetta, heiress and daughter of the founder of Marchetta Cosmetics.

It's easy to think this film is based on some well-known young women in Hollywood…
HD: Yeah, that started early on when it was announced we were doing the movie. It's not based on anyone at all whatsoever; it's based on the idea of what girls like this could be, but they're not actual girls.

What's the secret to your great relationship?
Haylie Duff: We started out this way. We started out as children being very close even when we were very little and I can't imagine it being any other way. And we appreciate it.
HD: We always shared the same group of friends. We've always been there for each other and had to spend a lot of time together because when we lived in San Antonio we lived in the Hill Country and there were not that many kids to play with. So all we had to play with was each other and if we would fight my mom wouldn't let us back in the house until we made up.
Haylie Duff: She'd say, “Go play in the yard until you're not fighting any more.”
HD: And then when we came out to LA, we didn't know anyone, so when we met kids, we met them together. And, Haylie, for some odd reason... I don't know why you're different, most older siblings are like not wanting to bring their younger siblings around and my sister always would be like, someone would invite her over for a sleep-over and she would be like, "Can I bring my little sister?" And I was always included.

Were you looking for a project to do together?
Haylie Duff: We weren't out there looking for something to do together. This came along and we had [the script] for a couple of years, actually, and we felt a little too young for it at the time and then it came back around again and it felt like a good fit.
HD: We always want to do things together because we're really close, but I don't think we were particularly looking for something and then we remembered we had this meeting a long time ago at Maverick (Films) and we thought, "That would be great now! We're at the perfect age!" It was just a lot of fun. These girls aren't really like us in real life. They are [only like us] in the fact that they are really close and they are sisters, but they are magnified and love being in the public and love attention, so it is poking fun of what everybody thinks some people are like.

This movie was filmed a while ago. What was it like watching yourself on-screen when you were so much younger?
HD: It's weird when we saw it all come together. It was a very long process. It's just nice that we get to see the final product and see our hard work on something we had so much fun on and something we got to do together.
Haylie Duff: And it was something that made us laugh which was our goal from the beginning.

But, as you said, you were involved with some of the action, too.
HD: What I liked about thi role is that it was a totally different character from Lizzie McGuire. Lizzie is the kind of shy girl trying to find her way through life, but Natalie is really popular and independent. But doing a big action movie for my first feature film was a good thing. This movie is so action-packed. Every single day on the set there are these big explosions. And it is really cool to see how that worked; how they could put it together. There could be an explosion this close to us, and I would feel so safe because they knew how to do everything and, like, aim it where they want to aim it and blow everything up. It was cool. I didn't really play a spy, so I didn't have any big fighting scenes. But I did deal with a lot of explosions. And there is this one part in which Arnold Vosloo, from The Mummy, is one of the bad guys and he was kidnapping me. We run outside behind this kitchen and he is getting ready to throw me in a car. So I climbed up the side of the car so he couldn't get me in there. That was a lot of fun.

Was making the film pretty much how you expected it to be?
HD: I never thought that I would be able to do any of this. We came out to California from Texas and we would audition and stuff. I got Lizzie McGuire and I thought, "Wow, this is cool. This is awesome. This is what I've wanted to do." Then, once the show got kind of popular, I did Cody Banks and I was like, "Wow, this is really cool!"