Never Been Kissed (1999)

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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…