The youngest copy editor at the Chicago Sun-Times gets her big break as an undercover reporter on an up-to-date exposé of high school. Problem is, this mousy virgin, needlecrafter, and turtle-owner was a teenage geek, and immediately falls in now with the "wrong crowd" -- an extracurricular calculus club called The Denominators. Drew Barrymore has fun with the part, more fun than we're apt to have, and she seems very pushy and phony next to the quiet naturalness of Leelee Sobieski (A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries) as one of the Good Girls. Luckily for Barrymore, unluckily for us, the heroine soon gravitates away from the Good toward the Bad. Even so, it's a better-than-average youth movie, extending an amicable bridge into the adult world, just not very far into it. Cute teacher (Michael Vartan); and cute closing-credits sequence incorporating childhood photos of cast and crew alike. With David Arquette, Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly; directed by Raja Gosnell. (1999) — Duncan Shepherd
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