Boys and Girls

Plot synopsis:
Jennifer Burrows and Ryan Walker meet as 12-year-olds aboard an airplane, and are immediately at odds; she is a free spirit, while he is deliberate and serious. Several years later, Ryan is mascot to his high school, while Jennifer is elected Homecoming Queen of hers. During the halftime ceremony between the two schools, Ryan is chased by the rival mascots and loses his mascot head, only to find it run over by Jennifer's ceremonial car. Jennifer later finds Ryan and tries to console him about his costume. The two part ways once more, realizing they are too different.
A year later, Ryan and Jennifer are students at UC Berkeley. Ryan is in a steady relationship with his high school sweetheart, Betty, and Jennifer is having a fling with a musician. Ryan meets his roommate Hunter (aka Steve), a self-described ladies' man with countless elaborate (and unsuccessful) ploys for sleeping with women. Jennifer moves in with her best friend Amy after she and her boyfriend break up. Ryan and Amy start going out, and he renews his friendship with Jennifer, even after Amy has her "breakup" with him for her. They take walks, console each other over break-ups, and gradually become best friends. Jennifer even talks Ryan into dating again, as he starts seeing a girl named Megan.
One night, in a cynical mood towards love, Jennifer breaks down and Ryan tries to console her. To their equal surprise, the two make love. Afraid of commitment, Jennifer says that sleeping together was a mistake, and that they should pretend it never happened. Hurt and lovesick, Ryan breaks up with Megan and withdraws into his studies. As months pass, Jennifer graduates and readies herself to travel to Italy. She encounters Ryan, who she has not seen since their night together, at a hilltop overseeing the Golden Gate Bridge. Ryan confesses his feelings towards her, but soon realizes that she does not feel the same way. He wishes her well in Italy, and leaves.
On the shuttle to the airport, Jennifer passes the same hilltop where the two used to spend time together and realizes she indeed loves Ryan. She immediately races back to her apartment and finds Amy frantically getting dressed to greet her. Steve confidently strolls out of Amy's bedroom and tells Jennifer that Ryan is heading back on a plane to Los Angeles. While waiting for departure, Ryan hears Jennifer confess her love for him in Latin. After a little convincing, and feeling the wrath of a flight attendant, the two rekindle their romance where they first met — on an airplane.

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Review:
In an era when "teenage-girl movies" run rampant, it is easy to dismiss this as just another flick targeted to make young girls squeal over Freddie Prinze Jr or one of his 20-something cohorts.
All the critics seem to be saying that this movie is trying to be "When Harry Met Sally" and failing miserably at it, instead of seeing what a nice change of pace it is to see a romantic movie about two people who don't cuss and run around naked.
I get so tired of seeing the same plot line over and over and then when someone makes an original movie like "Boys and Girls" it is bashed because people say it is boring.
It is not boring, it just contains great dialogue instead of the usual lame boyfriend girlfriend story where they all try to figure out who to sleep with next or what funny sex scene they can come up with.
As a matter of fact, the only problem I have with the script is the miniscule hypocrisy found in it: at some point in the movie, Jennifer states that a romance movie never shows the affect of time on long term relationships, and this movie was not an exception as it ends with them making up and going off to live "happily ever after".Now we can look at the undeniable chemistry and superb acting of the two main characters, Ryan and Jennifer.
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Claire Forlani are two of the up and coming celebrities of teen movies and I personally feel that they did their part in this movie by acting well.
I think the main characters came off as more intellectual (as one majors in engineering and the other in Latin) so the writers aimed more towards clever jokes, anecdotes, and quip remarks which, to me, seemed just as hilarious as Jason Biggs's antics.All in all, this isn't the BEST movie in the world, but it IS definitely a good movie if you want to watch a movie that will make you feel like Love is something real and not just some random idea that people have in their heads..
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Claire Forlaini have wonderful chemistry and are fun to watch (especially in the dance club scene).
Jason Biggs is great as the best friend showing more character than in the American Pie films.
In conclusion, to all you Jason Biggs or Freddie Prinze Jr. fans who have not seen this film, I highly recommend it.
Jason Biggs' role is very funny, and gives the movie the comedy touch, that I love.What more can I say??...
Of course the plot has echoes of When Harry Met Sally, but for me it was sufficiently different to be readily distinguishable, apart from the fact that it took place over a much shorter time period, almost all the important action being in the central characters' college years.I liked it that Ryan was an archetypal nerd (but not a totally clueless geek), which made the whole development of an apparently platonic friendship (but evidently more on his side almost from the start) much more plausible.
I liked the quietly attractive but by no means glamorous heroine and her friend.Because it did not require so much suspension of disbelief as When Harry Met Sally, I think it worked better..
Freddie Prinze is terrible at the beginning of this movie, I thought he kind of looked and talked like Christopher Reid, the brotha with the funny haircut from "Class act".
They both play minor characters, which further adds to my theory that this film was a preexisting "make lovers from friends" script featuring Forlani and Prinze Jr's characters that was forced into the old pie-tin once American Pie became a huge hit.
The acting is stilted, the dialogue is horrid, Claire Forlani is miscast as anything but an ice queen and Prinze and Biggs seem like they did a last minute switcheroo in an attempt for both to play against type, but Biggs can't play confident and Prinze is too good looking to be believably shy.
The title above says everything about this movie: it's a `When Harry Met Sally' modern version with a inversion of characters.
`When Harry met Sally' begins when they both graduate from High School, this one ends after the graduation.I love remakes, specially if it's a great movie, but the new version has to have something special,.
Everything a romantic comedy must have.Claire Forlani is very talented and surprised me with her performance, Freddie Prinze Jr. is very cute and the girls just love him.
Well I would say it's nice to see a good, light, nice, cute film where the "f" word is not in each and every scene(Hope you'll read this, Mr Singleton with all due respect), where there aren't 2500 gun shots per second and where real human feelings are actually present all along.
Some people will reproach Jason Biggs role that feels too close from "American pie" and yes that's the movie main flaw but no movie is perfect and this one has not been produced for next year's academy award race.
Jennifer Burrows (Claire Forlani) and Ryan Walker (Freddie Prinze Jr.) first time meet on a flight to LA as kids.
A rather uninspired film about the relationship between Ryan (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) and Jennifer (Claire Forlani) who meet as children sitting beside each other on an airplane and develop an inseparable bond.The movie is pleasant enough, but completely predictable and unoriginal.
In this movie, you know from the get-go that Jennifer Burrows (Claire Forlani) and Ryan Walker (Freddy Prinze, Jr.) are going to wind up together, and that it's just a question of how.
Claire Forlani is a rare beauty and Freddie Prinze Jr. who normally does not register in my mind as someone i would want to waste 2 hours of my time with in a darkened cinema screen, was actually rather charming.
I just checked, people: Boys and Girls was the 8th (!) movie I saw that starred Freddie Prinze.
Hardly a hidden gem, but good enough to watch and enjoy on a quiet night.Prinze is Ryan, who in early years, meets Jennifer (Forlani) on a plane (both characters are about 12 years old).
I didn't like it.Jason Biggs is pretty hilarious if you like his movies, which I do, but he just didn't redeem the rest of the movie for me, seeing how he only got about 12 minutes or less screen time.Guys: This movie is great to sit down and watch with your girlfriend.
Jason biggs was adept in his part to add humour and also CLAIRE's wit...agreed that there was a certain element of predictability, but what the heck...isn't the story of how two people meet, become friends and eventually fall in love (the so called cliché, how else you expect it, extra-terrestrial or something) shown here in a very subtle yet fated, scintillating yet compelling manner, boosted by some strikingly genuine performances, enough to give the movie its due credit!!Those who still can't get the essence of it,i am afraid you guys need a life..P.S: I am not a big fan of romantic comedies, but i have seen enough to say that this ONE rates right up there with the best!!!!.
There is some quite competent acting in this movie by all the stars though the comic relief of the Jason Biggs character was the highlight for me.
I think there is at least some value to be had in watching 'Boys And Girls'; it's worth a couple of hours of your time and folks who like romantic comedies would probably not be disappointed..
At times mature and thoughtful, at other times juvenile and ridiculous, `Boys and Girls' centers around a decade-long friendship (leading to romance) between a young, control-freak boy (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and a wild, carefree girl (Claire Forlani).
Biggs is funny as Prinze's love-hungry roommate, but nearly every character in the film is too likable to believe.
it's almost like, "hey, forgive me for being in this crap, see- i've done other movies."finally, Jason Biggs could have been good in this.
It was mildly entertaining, but it was hard to get past the fact that the filmmakers essentially copied the formula of "When Harry Met Sally."However, the chemistry didn't really seem there between Freddie Prinze and Claire Forlani's characters and the attraction wasn't terribly believable (other than they were both good looking).
The movie wasn't funny at all, save for a few moments of comic relief from Jason Biggs.
The dialogue was fairly lame and the plot was entirely predictable; I should have counted the number of times Freddie Prinze uttered the phrase "I don't know"-- it might have set a movie record!
As for Claire Forlani, she's appealing enough, but she seemed kind of old for the role and although she gives an American accent a good try (a bit better than her dialect in "Mallrats"), her British accent still is noticeable.Some of the film felt very forced, like the soapy dance club scene and the lesbian kiss (are women over the age of 11 really ever that cuddly?).
Amanda Detmer is good and the antics of Hunter/Tiger/Steve carry the movie a bit, but otherwise it seems like a run of the mill Freddie Prince Jr. movie (get a boy, get a girl, and a pinch of mayhem, and a dash of romance and tada...).Anyway, the year of 2000 had a lot of movies similar to Boys and Girls (ie Loser) and they are very difficult to decide which is better.This movie has funny points to watch, but alas they are not the whole movie.If you do watch this movie though, at least stay through the credits, that is almost the best part.Saw in theatres (35mm).
And Claire, what can I say, she is beautiful and a great actress (you can see that in Meet Joe Black, my favorite movie of all times).
Their differences are so irreconcilable that they really belong in different movies.This film tries to be a romantic comedy, but it is really a tragedy with a side order of hapless humor provided by Jason Biggs.
Poor movie has Prinze and Forlani playing people who keep meeting spontaneously and finally end up at college together where they become friends, who end up in bed together and then can't handle the consequences.
Movie has no character development,  Prinze loses his nerdiness and ordered ways apparently by simply taking off his glasses, there is no real reason given for the two to even end up friends.
I learned that one from watching Meet Joe Black.((shudder)) (she can pull off love scenes though)Freddie Prinze Jr. surprised me as a pleasant and slightly geeky at first young man who blossoms later in college .
Freddie Prinze Jr. and Claire Forlani are likeable as the couple who have a off and on relationship in college, but they're choices are pretty dumb, which in turn, effects the movie.
I saw this movie with a guy friend who basically wanted to see it because it would be American Pie in college.
The commercials make this movie seem like it's hilarious, but the truth is that it really isn't and there is only a few scenes that are funny.
Unlike corny teeney movie like "Drive Me Crazy," and others, this movie (although the same type of role Freddie Prinze Jr. always plays) is a common story about boy meets girl, they fight, they make up and suddenly realize their "love for each other."  This is, however, the first time Prinze has played the nerdy type boy who gets the girl instead of the popular jock.Still, this movie was funny and cute, and even some of the older crowd that had for some reason come to see it were pleased.
Claire Forlani, Freddie Prinze Jr, and Jason Biggs star..
Ryan (Freddie Prinze, Jr.) is a structured nerdy type who plans everything, while Jennifer (Claire Forlani) is a free spirit who takes each day as it comes.
The whole story is quite predictable, but thanks to a lot of clever writing (especially for the side characters) you'll probably never catch yourself checking your watch.The acting on almost all parts is very good.
Knock, knock Freddie...your career is on its way out unless you try a new genre or stop running this one on auto-pilot.All and all, this movie should create a lot of good laughs and says a lot more about relationships than you would guess.
This film reminds me another one: "When Harry met Sally" with Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, a friendship between them for many years, with ups and downs, with different couples and respective break-ups and finally they found out they were meant one for each other that they are perfectly together in love.
But this latest one with Freddy Prinze Jr and Claire Forlani is funny, touching and sweet too, the formula worked and they had love chemistry on screen, Freddy's character is more serious and a little nerdy and Claire's character is outgoing, strong-minded, impulsive, enjoying life day to day, but anyway they were the right couple in the end..
A boy and a girl (Freddie Prinze, Jr and Claire Forlani), who at first seem a most unlikely couple, gradually discover their similarities.
I think Freddie is great looking guy so for his fans yes this is a good watch, but if there is another movie on the shelf that you would also like to see, get that one first this can wait.
Freddie Prinze Jr. does some of his finest work as an actor, and has several very funny moments in the movie.Jason Biggs' role as Freddie's roommate steals the show.
Jason is funnier in this movie than he was in "American Pie".Claire Forlani is adorable, and this is her best role yet to date.
She captures both romance and comedy well.This film is sure to be one of this summer's hits, and it's a GREAT date movie!.
Freddie Prinze Jr, Jason Biggs and Claire Forlani all star here and they all give decent performances.
Ignoring for a second that both "Down" and "Boys" both take place in college, "Boys and Girls" is a movie packed with talent, but a script so bad it should have been taken out and shot.Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as Ryan, a somewhat meek and nerdy boy who lives and dies by careful meticulous planning.
After the 'so called' comedy "Down to you", Freddie Prince Jr. tortures us with another uninspired, boring, "I have to watch it through the ending just to bash it on IMDb"-Type movie, it's just terrible.It rips off the cult film "When Harry met Sally".
Nothing else happens in this movie and it's just painfully boring to watch Freddie Prince Jr. and Claire Forlani getting philosophical on each other.
Maybe I just haven't kept with the time and it's the new humor that I don't get, even though I'm only 20 years old.It's very predictable how this movie ends, like all the other teen movies, so that the little girls can sleep well at night.I suggest that you ignore this movie at all costs..
And Claire Forlani is great, a pity this role did not bring her more work in A-list films.Also fun to watch a younger Jason Biggs ham it up, without being at all self-conscious.Classic rom-com..
What makes this movie ridiculous is the very traditional ending, but mostly the scene where Jennifer (Claire Forlani) starts asking the guests at a cafeteria if they knew that maybe we will no ever find THE ONE despite our search for it.
It's one of the worst films I've ever seen, I just wasted my money when I went to the cinema...I think I'm still having a trauma.The people acting there are just horrible in their characters...Jason Biggs...just awful...and the others couldn't be worse, in fact, I hope they can't be worse than that...I really wanted my money back when I went out of the cinema and they almost gave it to me.
Take 'Harry Met Sally', use poor teenage characters, poor dialogue, poor scripting and average acting et viola  a poor movie.
We know this basic idea works because Harry Met Sally was a great film  however here things are different and it isn't any good at all.
BOYS AND GIRLS (2000) 1/2 Freddie Prinze, Jr, Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs, Amanda Detmer, Alyson Hannigan, Monica Arnold, Heather Donahue, Lisa Eichhorn, Raquel Beaudene, Brendon Ryan Barret.
God-awful romantic tiffle with Prinze, arguably the most bland person on the screen today, and the beguilingly easy on the eyes Forlani, as two inane collegiates who've been meeting cute since adolescence and obviously made for each other a la a poor, poor man's 'When Harry Met Sally' (such blaspheme!) The whole damn movie is boring, contrived, badly executed and excrutiating to sit through especially Biggs who has my vote for most annoying new presence in cinema today.
Prinze, of course is a write-off but Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs and Amanda Detmer are usually solid actors.
I'm not big fan of teen romance-comedies, but this movie at least had Jason Biggs (American Pie), Claire Forlani (Mallrats) and R&B diva Monica.
Jason Biggs was the only good part of the film..
I rented this movie hoping to see Jason Biggs give  good performance.
They have NO chemistry, it's as if they were given lines and are reading them for the first time.Everything about this movie is for 13 year old girls.
This movie is such a big ripoff of When Harry Met Sally, that it's not even enjoyable to watch.
I'm not sure exactly what Jason Biggs is trying to do, but his small film time, is almost like cameos instead of a full blown role.
Freddie Prinze Jr. stars as undergrad Ryan who seems to keep running into sexually confused Jennifer (Claire Forlani) every times he turns around.
My savior in this film was the very dense character played by American Pie's Jason Biggs.