The star of a team of teenage crime fighters falls for the alluring villainess she must bring to justice.
Costume
Plaid skirts as lethal weapon and lesbian signaling device
Direction
Robinson committing fully to the bit, no apologies
Writing
The thesis scene — cinema's greatest fake academic moment
Director
Angela Robinson
Sara Foster
Amy
Jordana Brewster
Lucy
Meagan Good
Max
Devon Aoki
Dominique
Jill Ritchie
Janet
Geoff Stults
Bobby
Jimmi Simpson
Scud
Holland Taylor
Ms. Petrie
Michael Clarke Duncan
Mr. Phipps
Jessica Cauffiel
Ninotchka
Christina Kirk
Madeleine
J.B. Ghuman Jr.
Dustin
Scoot McNairy
Stoner
Jean St. James
Waitress
Eric Dearborn
Eric
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Angela Robinson's feature debut — she'd later direct episodes of The L Word and Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, completing her holy trinity of queer cinema.
Released in 2005 when mainstream lesbian cinema was either tragic or invisible, D.E.B.S. dared to be silly, horny, and completely uninterested in straight approval.
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