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Boys and Girls (2000)
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Cast
as Ryan Williams
as Jennifer
as Hunter (Steve)
as Amy
as Megan
as Beth
as Young Ryan
as Young Jennifer
as N.Y. Flight Attendant
as Katie
as King
as Knight
as Michael
as D.J.
as Girl in Bar
as Big Guy
as Kirt
as Frat guy
as Timmy
as Andie
as Noah
as Paul
as Waitress
as Guy in Diner
as Girl in Diner
as Shuttle Driver
as Shuttle Passenger
as L.A. Flight Attendant
as Businessman
as Saleswoman
as Supermodel
as Supermodel
as Supermodel
as Supermodel
as Therapist
as Dancer
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Critic Reviews for Boys and Girls
All Critics (62) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (55) | DVD (2)
The cast is so charming and assured that it puts across most of this with a reasonable amount of conviction.
This is less a movie than a casting call -- just round up a crowd of pretty young faces, fresh yet still familiar, and call it a job well done.
[Boys and Girls] loses points for having the dreaded public place love pronouncement finale.
The larger motions [Boys and Girls] goes through are oh-so-tiresomely familiar.
The year's worst movie.
[Claire Forlani] is way too classy for this sort of film.
Audience Reviews for Boys and Girls
Recently picked this up for $3 second hand. I can remember being disappointed with it back in the 90's, but I couldn't really remember why. The cast are decent including Alyson Hannigan and Claire Forlani. I wondered if I had been harsh originally and decided to give it another go. Well, it all came flooding back. It's just not very good. Alyson is in it about five minutes. Freddie is wooden and Jason Biggs is the kiss of death. I like 90's teen films (generally) but there is much,much better out there. The way these kids talk and act does not ring true at all. For example, the whole scene on the plane - what 13 year old girl would seriously say all that stuff?? I can remember well being mortified, and wanting no one to know. Freddie is also not a good dork. Claire is a decent actress, but she wasn't convincing here either. I think the fault is in the script. It's just not well written, or especially engaging material. she's All That or Whatever it takes were better movies from this era and genre. Although it does pick up a bit at the end. Just takes a very, very long time to get there.
Super Reviewer
Not bad. Predictable, but still watchable.
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Robert Iscove really has a niche. He directed my most pleasing of guilty pleasures, "From Justin to Kelly," as well as the 1999 "Kiss Me" klassic, "She's All That" (which really hasn't held up). In this little-known year 2000 sophomore effort, he combines his penchants for awkward meet-cutes, attracting opposites, and meticulously choreographed impromptu dance parties, and it all goes down smoother than a chicka-cherry cola. The movie shares many familiar ingredients of its predecessor and other 90s teen classics: Freddie Prinze Jr. (this time as the Lainey Boggs-esque nebbish pantywaist, rocking the sk8terboi middle-part), Jason Biggs (as the frosted-tipped doofus), sweet-red Alyson Hannigan, and the requisite everybody-knows-what-they're-doing dance sequence, scored by none other than Fatboy Slim! Although "She's All That" is probably most remembered for that iconic scene, the one here calls for less suspension of disbelief. Jennifer knows the dance moves, and Ryan tries to keep up, more or less succeeding by the end. The club scene is more organically woven into the story than the perfect Prom breakdown. The movie also starts out exactly like the more recent "No Strings Attached" (which probably borrowed from this) - Ryan and Jennifer meet several times over ten years - but unlike the puppets on strings that are the characters of NSA, R+J (heh) do more than navigate the aftermath of casual friend-sex; they navigate a real friendship complicated by the past, present, and future. The storyline isn't groundbreaking, but in comparison to all the movies "Boys and Girls" reminds me of, it has a stronger driving conflict. Claire Forlani is way too old to play a college gal, but she is charismatic, charming, smoldering, delicately bony, breathy, and willowy and wounded as usual. She also rocks some great fashions - that weird hoodie sweater vest/cargo pants/Chucks combo AND that white backless top/wide-leg pants ensemble. Yowza.
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Boys and Girls Quotes
| Ryan: | Look, that night was as much a surprise to me as it was to you. But being with you was like going to a place that I had never been before. And after you fell asleep I just laid there, staring up at those cheap fluorescent stars you have stuck on your ceiling, and - after a while they just started forming a pattern, this weird glow-in-the-dark pattern that linked together our entire relationship. And for the first time everything seemed clear to me - like one logical progression. It felt like you and I were the greatest plan ever made and I had nothing to do with it. Being with you made me feel that maybe I didn't have to keep planning anymore because it felt like I was actually living. And that for once in my life I wouldn't have to work so hard at being happy. That it could just happen. Nothing will ever hurt me as much as your reaction to that same experience. |