Never Been Kissed

Released: 1999
Comedy
Director: Raja Gosnell
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Michael Vartan
Running Time: 107 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown: A new reporter gets her first assignment as an undercover teenage girl in high school.

A copy editor wants to be a journalist.  The Chicago Sun Time's owner lets her leap frog over her bosses wishes and allows her her first story.  Go undercover as a high schooler and learn what kids are doing these days.
Problem is she was a total loser back in high school and it seems she's doomed to repeat the same path, until her brother saves the day and her reputation.  She falls for a hot teacher, but is conflicted when the paper's owner tells her to make a story out of him or else she'll lose her job and get her boss fired as well.

This was a predictable, uninspired movie with a terrible performance from Barrymore.  She was a producer and that's always a bad sign that it wouldn't get made without her money behind it.

Skip it.
1 out of 5 for Michael Vartan.