Not Another Teen Movie
Short description
Not Another Teen Movie is a comedy set at John Hughes High School, where Jake Wyler, the school's football star, accepts a bet that he can transform an unpopular classmate into prom queen. His friends pick Janey Briggs, a bespectacled aspiring artist who wears paint-stained overalls and keeps to herself. Jake's sister Catherine and Priscilla, the head cheerleader, work against him, while Janey's childhood friend and others get drawn into the scheme. What begins as a prank grows complicated when Jake's feelings for Janey become genuine, and she eventually learns she was the subject of a wager. The film sends up the teen comedies of the 1980s and 1990s through a large ensemble of characters and a steady stream of references to the genre's conventions.
Joel Gallen directed, working from a screenplay by Buddy Johnson, Phil Beauman and Adam Jay Epstein, with Neal H. Moritz producing. It was Gallen's first feature film, and the only narrative feature among his later credits, all of which are television specials and ceremonies. Chyler Leigh plays Janey and Chris Evans plays Jake, with Jaime Pressly, Eric Christian Olsen, Mia Kirshner and Deon Richmond in supporting roles. Made for 16 million dollars, it earned 66 million worldwide, a strong return. On IMDb it holds 5.8/10 from 126,000 votes and on TMDB 5.8/10 from 2,375 votes, while the critics' rating stands at 4.7/10 from 102 reviews, lower than the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The filmmakers were unable to obtain permission to use footage from Robert Iskov's comedy "It's All Her" (1998), so the corresponding scene had to be shot with two different people in library sets and blurred.
- The studio executives disliked the film's ending, and the filmmakers had to turn to Molly Ringwald for help (she played the flight attendant).
- In Spain and Greece, the film was released under the title "Not Another Dumb American Movie."
- The buildings are named after directors and actors of films that the film itself parodies – John Hughes, Anthony Michael Hall, and Harry Dean Stanton.
- The original title of the film was "Children's Cinema," but it had to be abandoned because the issues it addressed were definitely not suitable for a children's audience, and the film was given the title "Not-for-Children Cinema."
- The detention scene is a parody of John Hughes's comedy "The Breakfast Club" (1985). Paul Gleason plays the principal, parodying himself from the Hughes film, and even his characters have the same name in both films – Richard Vernon.
- Reggie Ray, played by Ron Lester, is a parody of Billy Bob in his own role in Brian Robbins's sports melodrama "Varsity Blues" (1998). In both films, his characters have a pet pig named Bacon in "Varsity Blues" and Sausage in "Not Another Teen Movie."
- Among the extras in the crowd at the graduation, one can spot someone who looks exactly like Marty, the main character from the "Back to the Future" films, played by Michael J. Fox.
- On some DVD/Blu-Ray editions (but not all), there are two bonus scenes at the end.
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