1998 - Rated PG-13 - 1 hr 40 min
Directors: Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, Freddy Rodriguez, Sean Patrick Thomas, Donald Faison, Jaime Pressly, Selma Blair, Jason Segel, Chris Owen
Oh, high school. This movie came out the year before I graduate high school, so the whole party-before-college premise rung true for me at the time. Jocks, nerds, cheerleaders, and X-filers alike can revel in this movie's accurate rendering of high school in the 90s. And what a cast... so many great bit parts played by actors who have real careers now!
See if you can spot Selma Blair. Or how about Jason Segel? Yep, that's him all right! This was fun to revisit after so much time has passed. Not only could I still remember my favorite lines, but finding all these "new" faces in the crowd became a game for me.
Anyway, it's no Oscar winner, nor does it have the kind of original plot that keeps you riveted. The characters are stereotypes, the acting's okay, but the real joy here is in what it represents for me. If you didn't graduate high school in the late 90s, this might not strike the same chord for you.
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