Gossip is a 2000 American teen psychological thriller film directed by Davis Guggenheim, and starring James Marsden, Lena Headey, Norman Reedus and Kate Hudson.

Travis is devoted to the wealthy Derrick as he allows him to live rent free in his apartment and focus on his art.

As they enjoy telling lies, the three decide to start a rumor for their final paper and track the results.

Jones writes her paper while Travis turns the rumor into an art installation full of warped photos of Naomi.

Since Naomi doesn't remember anything, she becomes convinced she was raped by Beau; under the encouragement of her friends, she reports it to the police.

When Jones confronts Derrick, he claims the sex was consensual and that Naomi made up the rape story so her father would not be upset with her.

Derrick goes to Naomi's dorm and taunts her about the night of the party and reveals he did this in revenge for her ruining his life.

As Derrick packs a bag and prepares to flee, Jones sees Travis buying a gun on the street.

"[3] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 31 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

[6] In the San Francisco Examiner, Wesley Morris wrote, "Gossip seems to have been written by a program that selects elements from music videos and girl-in-peril tele-movies to make one particularly off-the-charts ridiculous film.

He said the film looked like it "had something to interesting to say about date rape and gossip", but that the filmmakers cop out with an ending that is "like a sneer at the craft of storytelling".

[8] Angus Wolfe Murray of Eye for Film had similar views on the ending, but was more positive and gave it three out of five stars, calling it "one step up from the serial slasher flick" and praising Marsden's screen presence.