Never Been Kissed (1999)

Max Schreck as Graf Orlok in "Nosferatu" (1922)

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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

Film.com's FREE movie of the week is "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror." This 1922 classic of cinema based on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" (but with names changed) directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schrek in one of films most famous and frightening make-up jobs.

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Studio: Fox 2000

Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Apr 9, 1999

Running Time: 107 mins. (V)

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon, John C Reilly, Garry Marshall, Leelee Sobieski, Sean Whalen, Cress Williams, Octavia Spencer

director: Raja Gosnell

A copy editor in her early twenties gets her chance to become a reporter at a Chicago daily. Her first assignment consists of a feature on what cool high school students are doing. In order to uncover the life of the hip high schoolers, she must go undercover as a student herself. Meanwhile, her slacker brother decides to go back to the same high school in hopes of getting a second chance at being noticed by major-league baseball scouts.

April 11, 2001

Never Been Kissed improves on The Mod Squad by ripping off a far better piece of material: Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High. At twenty-two, Crowe posed as a high school student to write about the teen experience (his book became the basis for the 1982 movie). Never mind that Never Been Kissed doesn't credit Crowe's Fast Times - it's the botch that three screenwriters make of their hommage that rankles.

Drew Barrymore stars as Josie Geller, 25, an all-work, no-nooky copy editor at the…