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Title: She's All That (1999)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Freddie Prinze Jr. | ... | Zack Siler | |
| Rachael Leigh Cook | ... | Laney Boggs | |
| Matthew Lillard | ... | Brock Hudson | |
| Paul Walker | ... | Dean Sampson | |
| Jodi Lyn O'Keefe | ... | Taylor Vaughan | |
| Kevin Pollak | ... | Wayne Boggs | |
| Anna Paquin | ... | Mackenzie Siler | |
| Kieran Culkin | ... | Simon Boggs | |
| Elden Henson | ... | Jesse Jackson | |
| Usher Raymond | ... | Campus D.J. | |
| Lil' Kim | ... | Alex (as Kimberly 'Lil' Kim' Jones) | |
| Gabrielle Union | ... | Katie | |
| Dulé Hill | ... | Preston | |
| Tamara Mello | ... | Chandler | |
| Clea DuVall | ... | Misty | |
She's All That is your typical high school prom king and queen story and the run in defending the star status in the upcoming election. High school hottie, Zack Siler is dumped by his prom-queen girlfriend, the equally attractive and extremely popular, Taylor Vaughan who fell for a second-hand world reject TV soap star who she met over the spring break. Having been publicly dumped, Zack defends his discomposure by stating that Taylor is all make-up and wonder-bra and he can make any ordinary girl a prom queen with a similar package. His high-school buddy, Dean Sampson, engages him in a bet following this statement and picks the geeky looking Laney Boggs out of the crowd as the girl Zack must transform into the new prom queen. Zack agrees since he has no option, but as time passes and Laney begins to transform, Zack begins to find her attractive. While all that falls beautifully in place, it's not your typical fairy-tale. Throw in Dean Sampson to complicate the situation, as when he ... Written by Sofea Shah
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That the IMDb score is way too low speaks I think to the fact that the intended audience for the film was ... disappointed. Perhaps expectations were too high? Perhaps this story had been done once too often. But the odd fact (and the thrust of this review) is that the film is memorable because the stars rise above the material .... before they themselves burn out and lapse into film obscurity.
It was an odd confluence of talent. Director Iscove is well respected in TV but this remains one of his only shots at a feature. Prinze, who had pretty much owned the casting niche he was in, was 23 at the time the film was made and arguably long in the tooth for a high schooler. Nonetheless the chemistry between him and Leigh-Cook was powerful and that chemistry held the movie up when the dialog and the mugging by the other actors let it down.
It's all timing. Leigh-Cook never really made the transition to films after, but kept very busy with TV. Prinze never really made the transition, period, but he's still a young guy and who knows? The Pygmalion thing has been done to death but oddly Iscove, Prinze and Leigh-Cook kept it alive for one more outing. Entertaining.