Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 03/24/2000(USA)
Release Date: 08/01/2000
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Flags: Adult Humor
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
In this teen-oriented romantic comedy, Ryan Woodman (
Shane West) is a socially inept high school senior whose idea of a good time is practicing his accordion, while Chris Campbell (
James Franco) is a BMOC football star (and intellectual lightweight) at the same school. Ryan is hopelessly in love with Ashley Grant (
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe), who is beautiful, popular, and entirely out of his league, while Chris has a serious crush on Maggie (
Marla Sokoloff), a pretty but bookish friend of Ryan's. Chris and Ryan realize that they're in a position to help each other, and through a complicated arrangement of phone calls, e-mails, and double dates, they try to work out a system by which each guy will be with the girl of his dreams -- though things hardly turn out the way anyone expected. Produced under the title
Got to Be You,
Whatever It Takes also features
Julia Sweeney and
Colin Hanks.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide