She's All That
| She's All That | |
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| Directed by | Robert Iscove |
| Written by | R. Lee Fleming Jr. |
| Produced by | Peter Abrams, Richard N. Gladstein, Robert L. Levy |
| Starring | Freddie Prinze, Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Anna Paquin, Paul Walker |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
Running time | 95 mins |
| Budget | ~ US$10,000,000 |
She's All That is a 1999 romantic comedy film, directed by Robert Iscove, and is a modern remake of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (which was also the basis for the musical comedy My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn).
Freddie Prinze, Jr. enacts the contemporary counterpart role to Harrison's Professor Higgins when, as the result of a bet, he embarks on a mission to turn Rachael Leigh Cook from a geek into a prom queen.
Review
A romantic comedy disguised as a teen movie. On the surface, it's a story about an "ugly" girl reluctantly undergoes a makeover and becomes "stunningly beautiful" girl. However, the so-called makeover only involved new clothes, new haircut, and removing the glasses. If only it was that easy. Looking more closely, the actual transformation was "unpopular, individualist" girl learns to become more sociable.
As with most teen movies, the stereotyping is alive and well. Laney's biggest rival is the so-called "popular" girl, who's bitchy, attention-seeking antics are somewhat over-the-top. But the two main actors (Cook & Prinze) work well together.
Trivia
- Freddie Prinze's wife, Sarah Michelle Gellar, provides a cameo appearance as a girl in the school's cafeteria.
- The film was one of the main inspirations for the parody Not Another Teen Movie.
- The school, Torrance High, was also used for filming Not Another Teen Movie. The school has served as Sunnydale High in Gellar's TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and also appears as the high school in Beverly Hills 90210.
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