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Character
Josie Geller (Drew Barrymore) - a 25-year-old copy editor who works for the Chicago Sun-Times; and who is assigned to go undercover at a local
high school for her first story. Unfortunately, Josie's high school years were marked with cruelty from other students and the scar of her
nickname "Josie-Grossie". At first, she becomes a Denominater and she is considered a geek. When Rob tells everyone that she is actually
amazing, everyone starts to like her.
Plot
Barrymore plays 25-year-old Josie Geller, a one-time high school misfit turned pedantic and lonely copy-editor for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Josie desperately wants to be a reporter, and constantly sends story ideas to her boss, Gus (John C. Reilly). One day during a staff meeting,
the tyrannical editor-in-chief, Rigfort (Garry Marshall) assigns her to report undercover at a high school. At first, despite her best efforts
and the support of her best friend at the paper, Anita (Molly Shannon), Josie reverts back to her geeky, misfit, high school persona, and
becomes friends with fellow geek Aldys (Leelee Sobieski). However, after counselling by her brother, Rob (and with the benefit of hindsight
of her original high school career), Josie learns how to let go of the who she was in highschool.
A subplot involving the attraction between Josie (who has never had a romance) and young English teacher Sam Coulson is complicated by the
fact that Sam thinks Josie is 17-years-old and a student, and therefore out of bounds.
The premise of the film is loosely based on the real-life undercover work of Shann Nix, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who posed as a
high school student to uncover the conditions in inner-city schools in San Francisco. [2] Unlike the fictional character, Nix was not unpopular
in high school, and never had a romantic connection with a teacher when she went undercover. The movie is a remake of The Major and The Minor.
Courtesy of Wikipedia
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