Taglines: These two opposites attract… but EVERYONE’S trying to keep them apart!
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 first made the bet he never thought that Zack could rise to the challenge but looking at how Laney has transformed, it looks like Zack could be on a winning streak.
She’s All That is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Robert Iscove and starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Paul Walker and Matthew Lillard. It is a modern adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion and George Cukor’s 1964 film My Fair Lady. It was one of the most popular teen films of the 1990s and reached No. 1 at the box office in its first week of release. In April 2015, it was announced that the film will be remade by The Weinstein Company.
R. Lee Fleming, Jr. is officially credited as the sole screenwriter for the film, and in a 2002 interview, M. Night Shyamalan confirmed that he polished the screenplay while adapting Stuart Little and writing a spec script for The Sixth Sense. This was also confirmed in the film’s audio commentary by director Robert Iscove. In 2013, Shyamalan claimed that instead of polishing Fleming, Jr.’s original script, he actually ghost-wrote the film. This was disputed by someone who claimed to be Fleming, Jr. in a message on Twitter that has since been deleted.
On June 17, 2013, Jack Lechner (who served as Miramax’s head of development in the late 1990s) confirmed that technically both Shyamalan and Fleming, Jr. contributed to the script: Fleming, Jr. wrote the initial script that Miramax bought while Shyamalan did an uncredited rewrite (doing more than “a polish”) that got the film green-lit. Lechner reiterated that content from both writers was included in the final cut of the film.
Generally regarded as a “feel-good movie”, the film was a sleeper hit and reached No. 1 at the box office in the first week of its release in theaters, grossing $16,065,430 over the Super Bowl opening weekend. It earned $63,366,989 in the United States and $39,800,000 at international box offices, totaling $103,166,989 worldwide against a production budget of $10,000,000.
She’s All That (1999)
Directed by: Robert Iscove
Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr., Rachael Leigh Cook, Matthew Lillard, Paul Walker, Jodi Lyn O’Keefe, Kevin Pollak, Kieran Culkin, Elden Henson, Usher Raymond, Kimberly “Lil’ Kim” Jones, Anna Paquin
Screenplay by: R. Lee Fleming, Jr., M. Night Shyamalan
Production Design by: Charles William Breen
Cinematography by: Francis Kenny
Film Editing by: Casey O. Rohrs
Costume Design by: Denise Wingate
Set Decoration by: Jeffrey Kushon
Art Direction by: Gary Diamond
Music by: Stewart Copeland
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, crude humor, brief strong language and teen drinking.
Distributed by: Miramax Films
Release Date: January 29, 1999
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