Never Been Kissed

Josie, a former high school ugly duckling, is now a copy editor for the Chicago Sun Times. She wants to prove herself as a reporter and her first assignment is to go undercover as a high school student to report on what is going on in the lives of teenagers. She finds that more than proving herself as a reporter, she wants to use her adult competence to triumph over her hideously humiliating memories of being unpopular (her nickname was "Josie Grossie") and find a way to fit in. But it turns out that the skills it takes to succeed as an adult have nothing to do with the skills it takes to succeed in high school. When she does find a place with "The Denominators," the school's brainy (nerdy) crowd, she is happy. But pressed by her editor to fit in with the cool kids, she relives her old experience of frustration and embarrassment. Meanwhile, her brother Rob (David Arquette), has found that the skills that made him very successful in high school have been of no use since. Wanting to help Josie -- and to return to the place where he was happiest -- he, too enrolls in the high school, and is not only immediately dubbed "cool" by the entire student body, he is able to make Josie cool, too. Josie is at last noticed by the most popular boy in school, and is thrilled when he invites her to the prom. And she begins to fall in love with her handsome English teacher. Her entire office is mesmerized by her daily adventures, which they watch through a hidden camera.All of the predictable complications ensue, and all are resolved in a finale that is more romantic than persuasive, but fun.