The read
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,452 2000s comedy movies in this catalog score higher. It runs a compact 1h 29m.
Synopsis
On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes32%
Metacritic32/100
Audiences rate it 26 points higher than critics do.
2,379 audience votes
Key crew
- Mike BenderScreenplay
- Joel GallenDirector
- Adam Jay EpsteinScreenplay
- Phil BeaumanScreenplay
- Theodore ShapiroOriginal Music Composer
- Andrew JacobsonScreenplay
- Buddy JohnsonScreenplay
Cast
- Chyler LeighJaney Briggs
- Chris EvansJake Wyler
- Jaime PresslyPriscilla
- Eric Christian OlsenAustin
- Mia KirshnerCatherine Wyler
- Deon RichmondMalik
- Eric JungmannRicky Lipman
- Ron LesterReggie Ray
- Cody McMainsMitch Briggs
- Sam HuntingtonOx
- JoAnna Garcia SwisherSandy Sue
- Lacey ChabertAmanda Becker
