Over a 24 hour period, 17-year-old sisters Jane (Ashley Olsen) and Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) Ryan, adversaries who begrudgingly journey together from their Long Island home to New York, where overachiever Jane is due to deliver a speech to qualify for a prestigious college scholarship abroad. Meanwhile, laid-back punk rock rebel Roxy hopes to get backstage at an underground music video shoot for punk pop band Simple Plan so that she can slip her demo tape to the group. However, Roxy and Jane's plans go awry when a mix-up involving Jane's day planner lands them in the middle of a shady black-market transaction. Pursued by an overzealous truant officer and accused of kidnapping a dog belonging to a senator, the Ryan's must find a way to work together to thwart the forces threatening to jeopardize Jane's college dreams and ship Roxy off to a convent school.

Brooklyn Bridge, Lower East Side, Manhattan.

Chambers Street and Centre Street, Manhattan.

Subway, Centre Street and Chambers Street, Manhattan.

Mott Street and Canal Street, Chinatown, Manhattan.

5th Avenue (btw West 24th & 25th Streets) Manhattan.

35 Pell Street and Mott Street, Manhattan.

Times Square (Broadway, 7th Avenue, West 42nd and 47th Streets) Manhattan.

6th Avenue and West 49th Street, Manhattan.

6th Avenue and West 50th Street, Manhattan.

East 57th Street (btw 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue) Manhattan.

5th Avenue and West 59th Street, Manhattan.

5th Avenue and West 59th Street, Manhattan.

The Plaza Hotel, 750 5th Avenue and Central Park South, Manhattan.

Park Avenue and East 97th Street, Manhattan.

7th Avenue and West 46th Street, Manhattan.

West 46th Street (btw 7th & 6th Avenues) Manhattan.

West 49th Street (btw 7th Avenue & Broadway) Manhattan.

Mott Street and Pell Street, Manhattan.

East 41st Street and 5th Avenue, Manhattan.

Columbia University, Broadway and West 116th Street, Manhattan.