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1999 film by Raja Gosnell
the 1999 film

The film was released in North America on April 9, 1999, in 2,455 theaters. It grossed $55.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $29.1 million in other markets, for a worldwide total of $84.6 million against a production budget of $25 million.

Critics gave mixed reviews to the film, with a "Rotten" score of 55% on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes based on 91 reviews, making it Raja Gosnell's highest rated film. Its consensus reads: "Drew Barrymore's effervescent charm is almost enough to make you forgive this teen comedy's incredibly silly storyline." Film critic Roger Ebert was not as harsh on the film, giving it three out of four stars and saying, "The movie's screenplay is contrived and not blindingly original, but Barrymore illuminates it with sunniness, and creates a lovable character." The film has since garnered a cult following. For the 20th anniversary of its initial release on April 9, 2019, Drew Barrymore posted the following on social media:
Never Been Kissed was my partner Nancy Fallon and my first official movie at Flower Films. All we wanted to do was make something that felt like the way so many of us feel growing up. It’s raw and ridiculous, beautiful and helps you decide what is important and what isn’t. But we also loved humor. And if pain isn’t mixed with insane laughter, then it doesn’t work. Humor and humility are linked like besties! And everyone feels vulnerability while they are figuring out who they are and what they stand for. It also helps when you have the best cast and great music and everyone is making the same story! Josie Grossie forever.

The November 6, 2020 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show featured Barrymore in the "Drew's News" segment reprising her role as Josie "Grossie" Geller. Sporting her satin pink prom dress, matching scrunchie and braces, Josie stepped straight out of 1988 for an interview with Barrymore with no knowledge of anything that's happened since then. Josie subsequently became a recurring sketch comedy part of the series, with Barrymore interviewing the cast of Dear Evan Hansen in character as Josie. Barrymore once more portrayed Josie in a segment for the December 13, 2021 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, when she interviewed Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, who were themselves, in character as Maya Ishii Peters and Anna Kone respectively from the TV series PEN15.

The film was inspired by a series of real life investigatory news articles written by Shann Jones (née Nix) on her experience as an undercover senior student in San Francisco's George Washington High School in 1992. At the time, Jones was working for San Francisco Chronicle. She undertook the assignment from the paper to investigate the adverse impact of California's school funding cuts resulted from the state's Proposition 13 property tax reduction.