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Boys and Girls
Dimension Films
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content
Starring
Freddie Prinze Jr.,
Claire Forlani,
Jason Biggs,
Amanda Detmer,
and
Heather Donahue
College students at Berkeley and longtime friends, Ryan (Prinze) and Jennifer (Forlani) learn that love sometimes finds you when you are least expecting it.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Andrew Lowery
Andrew Miller
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Robert Iscove
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 14, 2000
Video: November 14, 2000
Theatrical: June 16, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
94 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Plays like a college version of ''When Harry Met Sally.''
63
Chicago Tribune
Monica Eng
Starts with such promising quirkiness that it's easy to forget for the moment that you are watching a teen comedy.
63
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Turns into an amusing showcase for two of Hollywood's most appealing young actors.
60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A likably thoughtful romantic comedy.

59
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Oh-so-tiresomely familiar.
50
USA Today
Andy Seiler
As the couple stand on the bluffs overlooking San Francisco Bay, you may find yourself wishing Forlani would push Prinze in.
50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Watching this film is a little like wallowing in warm surf with soft pop music wafting in the breeze.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's nothing if not predictable.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It's not that I don't like it. It's that I don't care.

42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Prinze and Forlani coast on charisma alone, but even their charms can't coax magic from the prosaic dialogue and romantic clichés that clog this listless comedy.

40
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
An adolescent romance that isn't smart enough to mirror "When Harry Met Sally" or crudely amusing enough to get close to "American Pie."

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The material is familiar, the Berkeley locations are strictly boilerplate, and there are times when the characters seem more like high school students than college kids.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Stays firmly, depressingly, inside the lines.

30
Variety
Robert Koehler
As generic as its title.

30
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
So shallow and brainless it's in perpetual danger of drying up and blowing away.

30
Film.com
Gemma Files
Appalling, repetitive, utterly predictable.

30
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
The best thing that can be said about Boys and Girls is that it is studiously inoffensive.

25
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
There are episodes of "Rugrats" with stronger sexual suspense.

25
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Designed to appeal to people who thought "She's All That" was too mentally demanding.

25
Miami Herald
Charles Savage
May be among the most excruciating mainstream movies to spew forth from Hollywood in years.
20
Film.com
Tom Keogh
It's insulting and devalues the experience of watching not just this film but all films.

20
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
A paint-by-numbers romantic comedy, but without the heart or laughs to make it work.

20
Village Voice
Nick Rutigliano
A cat-and-dog romantic squabbler so garbled you'd need a centrifuge to sort things out.

20
LA Weekly
Nicole Campos
Nice try, guys . . . now give me back my 97 minutes.

0
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
This ill-fitting movie was mail-ordered from an out-of-date catalog of teen-com stereotypes.

0
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Calling Boys and Girls the year's worst movie makes it sound more entertaining than it actually is.

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