WHEN a drugs bust goes tragically wrong resulting in the murder of an informant, the only witnesses to the crime are five cheerleaders from the University of Texas Longhorns football team.

The sassy quintet - Anne (Christina Milian), Therese (Paula Garces), Evie (Monica Keena), Barb (Kelli Garner) and Heather (Vanessa Ferlito) - are immediately put under armed guard, and emotionally repressed Texas Ranger Roland Sharp (Tommy Lee Jones) is given the unenviable task of babysitting the witnesses to ensure the shooter (Brian Van Holt) doesn't shoot them too.

So Roland moves into the sorority house with the girls, where he sets about trying to mould them into prim and proper little madams.

At the same time, they school him in the art of good manners and seduction so he stands a chance of romancing their pretty English professor (Anne Archer).