Drew Barrymore’s virtuoso performance smooths over the plot holes.
Never Been Kissed (1999)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:12
Rotten:13
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: Unoriginal and unremarkable high school satire adds little to the genre.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Drew Barrymore gets what others only dream about in this charming, fun comedy: a second chance to right the wrongs of high school! At 25, Josie Geller is the youngest copy editor at the Chicago... Drew Barrymore gets what others only dream about in this charming, fun comedy: a second chance to right the wrongs of high school! At 25, Josie Geller is the youngest copy editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, and the obvious choice to go undercover on a story about what the "cool kids" of high school are up to. A dorky teen dubbed "Grossie Josie" the first time around, this time Josie is required to make friends with the popular kids in order to deliver on her assignment. Unfortunately, now that Josie has come into her own as an intelligent young woman with a career and a brain in her head, those aren't the people she's interested in; as she begins to develop feelings for a teacher she's been ordered to portray badly, things start to get really complicated! Will Josie redeem herself from the mistakes she made in her high school years, or will she find herself repeating them all over again? [More]
Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Leelee Sobieski
Starring: Drew Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan, Garry Marshall, John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Jessica Alba, Sean Whalen
Director: Raja Gosnell
Director: Raja Gosnell
Composer: David Newman
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Reviews for Never Been Kissed
The most exhilarating American movie I have seen this year -- which isn't saying much.
Drew Barrymore has been well cast as someone who doesn't act her age.
While Never Been Kissed belongs heart and soul to Barrymore, Sobieski's natural poise and assurance reminds us that her own prime time is not so very far away.
The film succeeds on the astonishing merits of its leading lady and her superior supporting cast.
The flashback-Josie is so grotesque, and the present-tense-Josie so unbelievable that "Never Been Kissed" is essentially an exercise in humiliation.
Effortlessly convincing as a smart, klutzy, Marilyn Monroe-ishly vulnerable but prematurely spinsterish romantic, Barrymore displays here a comic talent equal to Goldie Hawn's or Meg Ryan's at their best.
A lively tribute to the awkwardness and power of adolescent girlhood.
Drew Barrymore movies have an advantage that others don't -- they have Drew Barrymore in them. But that doesn't take away from the fact that she makes more lousy pictures than any other good actress.
There isn't a movie actress I get a bigger kick out of watching right now than Drew Barrymore.
Barrymore brings so much uninhibited energy to Never Been Kissed that it points to a new direction in her acting.
The movie's screenplay is contrived and not blindingly original, but Barrymore illuminates it with sunniness, and creates a lovable character.
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