Katharine McPhee Turns to Silver Screen

Fri, 13 July 2007 12:00:00 ET

Katharine McPhee will play a pregnant hippie in her first movie role and star alongside Rumer Willis.
and 'American Idol' runner-up will play social misfits in a new teen comedy. The film centres on a Playboy bunny, portrayed by , who becomes house mother of an unpopular US college sorority after she is thrown out of the Playboy mansion.

Rumer and McPhee will play sorority sisters from the uncool female social club. Rumer - the 18-year-old daughter of and - is set to star as an insecure young woman who wears a back brace even though she could have had it removed years ago. McPhee will make her acting debut portraying a pregnant hippy in the latest film from 's Happy Madison productions.

Sarah Wright is set to play the head of a popular rival sorority. The movie, penned by 'Legally Blonde' writers Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, will be directed by Fred Wolf. Filming is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on July 23.



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