Marissa winokur never been kissed

film by Raja Gosnell

This article is about the film. For the Glee episode, see Never Been Kissed (Glee). For other uses, see Never Been Kissed (disambiguation).

Never Been Kissed is a American romantic comedy film directed by Raja Gosnell, and starring Drew Barrymore, Jessica Alba, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Leelee Sobieski, Jeremy Jordan, Molly Shannon, Garry Marshall and John C.

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In , Barrymore reprised her role from Never Been Kissed as a sketch on The Drew Barrymore Show.

Plot

Josie Geller is an insecure year-old copy editor for the Chicago Sun-Times who has never had a real relationship.

One day, her editor-in-chief, Rigfort, assigns her to report undercover at a high school to assist parents become more aware of their children's lives.

Her first day at South Glen South High School is miserable. Josie reverts to the old geek persona that ruined her first high school experience.

She also has an unfortunate run-in with three obnoxious popular girls, Kirsten, Gibby and Kristin, and the school's most attractive and well-liked student, Guy Perkins. Josie loses hope but is reassured when a kind-hearted nerd named Aldys befriends her.

Aldys, who loathes Guy and his gang, invites Josie to join the Denominators, a group of intelligent students.

Josie falls in love with her English teacher, Sam Coulson, and becomes the top scholar in his class.

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After reciting a romantic excerpt from Shakespeare to Sam, Josie has horrible flashbacks to when she read a romantic poem aloud in class to her high school crush, a trendy boy named Billy Prince, who later asked her to their senior prom, making her fantasy come true.

However, on the night of the prom, Billy arrives with another girl and both of them hurl eggs and insults at Josie, humiliating her and breaking her heart.

One night while out driving with Aldys, Josie encounters Guy and his gang at a local hangout called "The Court" where promiscuity and underage drinking take place.

Her managing editor Augustus "Gus" Strauss loses patience with Josie after a rival paper scoops the Court story, and orders Josie to turn into friends with the popular kids. He arranges for her to wear a hidden camera, and soon the whole office becomes obsessed with her story.

Josie confides in her brother Loot about her fears. Rob, who was their high school's most popular boy in his teens, urges her to let proceed of her old self and start anew. To help her, Rob enrolls as a scholar and becomes an instant smash.

He then uses his affect to draw Josie into the cool crowd, much to the dismay of Aldys.

Sam and Josie grow closer, but Sam struggles with his feelings as he thinks she's a trainee. Guy and Josie attend the prom as Rosalind and Orlando from Shakespeare's As You Enjoy It.

Anita, Gus and Josie's other co-workers watch through the camera and are overjoyed as she is voted prom queen.

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As Guy dances with Aldys as an alleged proceed of friendship, the mean girls attempt to dump dog nourishment over Aldys. Outraged, Josie prevents the incident, throws her crown away and reveals her real identity. She praises Aldys for her kindness and warns the students that one's persona in high school means nothing in the real world.

Sam is hurt by her lies and states he wants nothing to do with her. Also angered is Rob, whose identity was revealed by Josie, who as a phony student received a second chance at baseball. Josie, ultimately making amends, secures him a baseball coaching job at the school.

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Josie vows to give Gus a story and writes an account of her experience. In it, she admits she's never been kissed, describes the students of South Glen South, and avows her cherish for Sam; the entire municipality is moved by it.

She writes she will stand in the middle of the baseball field with a countdown and wait for Sam to approach and kiss her. Josie waits, but the clock runs out with no sign of Sam. On the verge of giving up, soft cheers from the crowd give way to a booming roar, as Sam emerges to give her a intimate kiss.

The movie ends with Sam telling her it took him forever to get here, a sentiment with which Josie agrees as they kiss again.

Cast

Soundtrack

Production

Reception

Box office

The film was released in North America on April 9, , in 2, theaters.

It grossed $ million in the United States and Canada, and $ million in other markets, for a worldwide total of $ million against a production budget of $25 million.^[7]

Critical reception

Critics gave mixed reviews to the film, with a "Rotten" score of 55% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes based on 91 reviews, making it Raja Gosnell's highest rated clip.

Its consensus reads: "Drew Barrymore's effervescent charm is almost enough to make you forgive this teen comedy's incredibly silly storyline."^[8]

Film critic Roger Ebert was not as harsh on the production, giving it three out of four stars and saying, "The movie's screenplay is contrived and not blindingly original, but Barrymore illuminates it with sunniness, and creates a lovable character."^[9]

The motion picture has since garnered a cult following.^{[10][11][12][13][14][15][16]} For the 20th anniversary of its initial release on April 9, , Drew Barrymore posted the following on social media:^[17]

Never Been Kissed was my partner Nancy Fallon and my first official movie at Petal Films.

All we wanted to do was make something that felt like the way so many of us feel growing up. It’s raw and ridiculous, beautiful and helps you determine what is important and what isn’t. But we also loved humor. And if pain isn’t mixed with insane laughter, then it doesn’t work.

Humor and humility are linked like besties! And everyone feels vulnerability while they are figuring out who they are and what they stand for. It also helps when you have the leading cast and great music and everyone is making the equal story!

Josie Grossie forever.

Television series

The November 6, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show featured Barrymore in the "Drew's News" segment reprising her role as Josie "Grossie" Geller.^[18] Sporting her satin pink prom dress, matching scrunchie and braces, Josie stepped linear out of for an interview with Barrymore - with no knowledge of anything that's happened since then.

Josie subsequently became a recurring sketch comedy part of the series, with Barrymore interviewing^[19] the cast of Dear Evan Hansen^[20] in-character^[21] as Josie.^[22]

Barrymore once more portrayed Josie in a segment for the December 13, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, when she interviewed Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle,^[23] who were themselves, in personality as Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone respectively from the TV series PEN15.

The film's concrete life inspiration

The film was inspired by a series of authentic life investigatory news articles written by Shann Jones (née Nix) on her experience as an undercover senior student in San Francisco's George Washington High Institution in At the time, Jones was working for San Francisco Chronicle.

She undertook the assignment from the paper to inspect the adverse impact of California's school funding cuts resulted from the state's Proposition 13 property tax reduction.^[24][25]

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