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Never Been Kissed
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.
1999 · Directed by Raja Gosnell · 107 min · Romance · Comedy · Drama · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
Some things are worth waiting for.
Plot
Josie Geller is an insecure 25-year-old copy editor for the Chicago Sun-Times who has never had a real relationship. One day, her editor-in-chief, Rigfort, assigns her to report undercover at a high school to help parents become more aware of their children's lives.
Her first day at South Glen South High School is miserable. Josie reverts to the old geek persona that ruined her first high school experience. She also has an unfortunate run-in with three obnoxious popular girls, Kirsten, Gibby and Kristin, and the school's most attractive and popular student, Guy Perkins. Josie loses hope but is reassured when a kind-hearted nerd named Aldys befriends her. Aldys, who loathes Guy and his gang, invites Josie to join the Denominators, a group of intelligent students.
Josie falls in love with her English teacher, Sam Coulson, and becomes the top student in his class. After reciting a romantic excerpt from Shakespeare to Sam, Josie has horrible flashbacks to when she read a romantic poem aloud in class to her high school crush, a popular boy named Billy Prince, who later asked her to their senior prom, making her dream come true. However, on the night of the prom, Billy arrives with another girl, and both of them hurl eggs and insults at Josie, humiliating her and breaking her heart.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Marc Silverstein, Abby Kohn
- Written by: Jenny Bicks
- Cinematography: Alex Nepomniaschy
- Edited by: Debra Chiate, Marcelo Sansevieri
- Music: David Newman
- Produced by: Sandy Isaac, Nancy Juvonen
Cast
- Drew Barrymore as Josie Geller
- David Arquette as Rob Geller
- Molly Shannon as Anita
- Michael Vartan as Sam Coulson
- Jessica Alba as Kirsten
- John C. Reilly as Gus Strauss
- James Franco as Jason
- Octavia Spencer as Cynthia
- Jenny Bicks as Miss Haskell
- Garry Marshall as Rigfort
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Fox 2000 Pictures, Bushwood Pictures, Flower Films, Never Been Kissed Productions
- Budget: $25,000,000
- Box office: $84,565,230
- Themes: chicago, illinois, high school, newspaper, journalist, entrapment, undercover, nerd, kiss, romcom, love
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