Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

A sendup of all the teen movies that have accumulated in the past two decades.

Director:

Joel Gallen

Writers:

Mike Bender, Adam Jay Epstein,

Stars:

Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly

5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chyler Leigh	...	Janey Briggs
Chris Evans	...	Jake Wyler
Jaime Pressly	...	Priscilla
Eric Christian Olsen	...	Austin
Mia Kirshner	...	Catherine Wyler
Deon Richmond	...	Malik
Eric Jungmann	...	Ricky Lipman
Ron Lester	...	Reggie Ray
Cody McMains	...	Mitch Briggs
Sam Huntington	...	Ox
JoAnna Garcia Swisher	...	Sandy Sue (as Joanna Garcia)
Lacey Chabert	...	Amanda Becker
Samm Levine	...	Bruce
Cerina Vincent	...	Areola
Beverly Polcyn	...	Sadie Agatha Johnson

Storyline

At John Hughes High School, the students are the same as just about every other teenager in a teen movie. The popular jock, Jake, takes a bet from Austin, the cocky blonde guy, that he can transform Janey, the pretty ugly girl, into the prom queen before the prom. But two people are trying to stop Jake from succeeding: his evil sister, Catherine, the cruelest girl in school, and Priscilla, the bitchy cheerleader. And all of their friends are the same as any other teen movie: Areola, the naked foreign exchange student, Les, the beautiful weirdo, Malik, the token black guy, the desperate virgins, Amanda Becker, the perfect girl, Ricky, Janey's obsessed best friend, and Sadie, the VERY old undercover reporter.

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Plot Keywords:

bet | prom | teen movie | school | cheerleader | 

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Taglines:

They served you Breakfast. They gave you Pie. Now we're gonna stuff your face.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong crude sexual content and humor, language and some drug content

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

14 December 2001 (USA)

Also Known As:

Teen Movie

Filming Locations:

Rae's Restaurant, 2901 Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$16,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$120,447 (Netherlands) (7 June 2002)

Gross:

£1,696,327 (UK) (14 June 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation, Original Film, Neal H. Moritz Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min 99 min (unrated director's cut)

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The studio was unhappy with the original ending of the film, prompting the makers of the film to seek Molly Ringwald's help.

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Goofs

During prom night, when they have a "big" ending to the dance, Janey ends with her left foot forward but when it zooms out, Janey's right foot is forward.

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Quotes

Areola: But I don't need the class schedule. I only come to this country to be object of lust for poor nerds who cannot get American pussy.
Mr. Cornish: Well, isn't that wonderful?

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Crazy Credits

Two bonus scenes at the end: Mr Briggs, in a parody of a scene from "American Pie", talks about a "three-way" while holding two pies. The albino folk singer sings about being blinded from her corneas burned out by the sun. (This scene comes after all the credits have finished.)

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Connections

Spoofs Boston Public (2000)

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Soundtracks

"Kiss Me"
Written by Matt Slocum
Performed by Sixpence None The Richer
Courtesy of Squint Entertainment (a div. of Word Entertainment)

User Reviews

Certainly not a bad film

The IMDb ranking for this film is quite harsh in my opinion. OK, this film was never going to win an Oscar, but it's enjoyable throughout and has some very good laughs in it. I'm not a big fan of teen movies but I saw this and was impressed. It's light-hearted and not afraid to appear ridiculous (infact most of the time it does this deliberately) and it doesn't pretend to be "Just another teen movie", indeed it IS "Not another teen movie", it's a very enjoyable laugh at the expense of those films.

Don't expect your life to be changed by this film, but if you want simply a fun film to watch then you won't go far wrong seeing this one.