Together with Napster, Harry Potter and Y2K panic, teen rom-coms have been all the craze in 1999.
It is unclear if a sure sect of screenwriters acquired collectively and agreed that the waning years of the millennium have been the time to churn out pleasant fare for the underage set, however between 10 Issues I Hate About You, Varsity Blues, Merciless Intentions and She’s All That it was fairly the time to be in highschool and dreaming wistfully of first loves and excellent promenade dates.
Albeit considerably disturbing to understand {that a} bespectacled Rachael Leigh Cook dinner and a poorly attired Drew Barrymore are what go for impossibly nerdy in Hollywood.
Such was the premise for By no means Been Kissed. Barrymore’s Josie Geller is the youngest editor on the Chicago Solar-Occasions with a penchant for correcting her colleagues’ grammar (which, respect), however, maybe, not but possessing the entire abilities essential to land the reporting job of her desires. Then, apropos of nothing, her editor-in-chief instructs her to go undercover at close by South Glen South and write about her semester in highschool.