She’s All That

• Cat.no: VCD 0029
• Cert: 12
• Running time: 92 minutes
• Year: 1998
• Pressing: 1999
• Region(s): 2, PAL
• Chapters: 17 plus extras
• Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: English for the hard of hearing
• Widescreen: 1.85:1
• 16:9-enhanced: Yes
• Macrovision: Yes
• Disc Format: DVD 9
• Price: £19.99
• Extras : Scene index, Trailer, Cast/Director Interviews, Behind-the-scenes,Yearbook Photo Library
  

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  Director:

  Robert Iscove

  (Boys and Girls, The Flash, Murder in my Mind, Trapped and Deceived)

Producers:

Screenplay:

R. Lee Fleming Jr.

Music:

Cast:

Zack Siler: Freddie Prinze Jr (I Know What You Did Last Summer 1 & 2, Target for Rage)
Laney Boggs: Rachael Leigh Cook (18th Angel, Family Rescue, Strike, TV: Dawson’s Creek)
Brock Hudson: Matthew Lillard (Dead Man’s Curve, Hackers, Love Sucks, Scream, Senseless)
Taylor Vaughn: Jodi Lyn O’Keefe

She’s All Thatis what Freddie Prinze Jr is set to find out in this high-school teen comedywhich bases itself on the well-worn thread of turning an ugly duckling into a swanamongst the class divide of the cool crowd and the nerds, but comedies don’t have torely on 100% originality to draw you in and make you laugh a lot.

Freddie plays Student Body President Zack Siler. He has it all – the looks, the attentionand the girl of his dreams in Taylor Vaughn (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe), unless she dumpshim having met someone else in the form of the over-the-top Brock Hudson (Scream‘smaiming madman Matthew Lillard) who lives his life as one of the students onMTV’s “The Real World“.

Now all alone and in the last term of school, he’s going to have a problem taking adate to the prom when he doesn’t have one. Being the cock-sure cool and confident type,he bets his best friend Dean (Paul Walker) that he can take any girl and turn herinto a super-babe. Dean accepts on the understanding that he gets to pick the girl andselects the toughest nut to crack: Laney Boggs (Rachael Leigh Cook) – nerd ofthe century, connosieur of the weirdest art forms and wearer of glasses that make NHSspectacles look like a fashion item.

It doesn’t take a genius to work out how the film will end, coupled with the higherechelons of the social scale expectedly detracting Laney from joining their elite,but it’s an engaging watch finding out and the transformation of our heroine is definitelya sight for sore eyes, as anyone who saw her posing nude in an episode of “Dawson’sCreek” will testify to.

Comic timing is in abundance here and aside from the two leads there’s able supportat times from from Kevin Pollak, currently partnering Arnie in End of Days,as Laney’s “Jeopardy“-loving father, Kieran Culkin, whose screen career seemsto be heading in the right direction as opposed to his brother Macauley, as Laney’s youngerbrother Simon, and Matthew Lillard never seems to catch a breath when he’s onscreen.

There’s also a couple of singer-turned-actor-wannabes known in their professionalcapacities as Lil’ Kim and Usher, the latter only having one big hitin the UK with “You Make Me Wanna…” (No.1, January 1998).