Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 01/29/1999(USA)
Release Date: 07/13/1999
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 96 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language, Sexual Situations, Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Miramax
If Hollywood can shoehorn
William Shakespeare into the teen-movie treatment with
Romeo and Juliet, and
Jane Austen with
Clueless (from her novel,
Emma), why not
George Bernard Shaw? While his
Pygmalion has been staged and filmed endless times, most famously as the musical
My Fair Lady, here Shaw goes to high school. This time around, a Los Angeles' school's most popular guy Zack (
Freddie Prinze, Jr.) loses his girlfriend Taylor (
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) to television star Brock Hudson (
Scream's
Matthew Lillard). Zack then vows to his friends that he can take any girl in school and turn her into the prom queen. With five weeks until the prom, his friends pick weird, art nerd Laney Boggs (
Rachael Leigh Cook). Zack predictably gets more than he bargained for as he falls in love with his "creation."
Eldon Hudson and
Kieran Culkin, stars of
The Mighty, play Laney's best friend and little brother, respectively.
Robert Iscove, director of television's
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, makes his big-screen debut.
~ Chris Gore, All Movie Guide
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Teen Comedy With a Classic Literaturary Touch.
Robert Iscove's motion picture directorial debut has all the ingredients of Shakespeare, Jane Austin, and George Bernard Shaw rolled into one. Freddie Prinze, Jr. stars as a popular high-school student accepts a challenge from his follow students that he can transform their school's geeky girl into a beautiful prom queen, and he later falls in love with his new creation. Also starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Kevin Pollak, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kieran Culkin, Tim Matheson, Kimberly "Lil Kim" Jones, Elden Henson, Debbi Morgan, Anna Paquin, Chris Owen, Alexis Arquette, and Clea Du Vall.
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