Agreed! I'd really like to see it get revisited and an expanded appreciation of it as a dark comedy. I keep hoping that with Amy Adams's career doing so well that more people will search out this early gem. The whole damn cast really--Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley, Denise Richards, Mindy "Send in the FemBOTS!!!" Sterling, and Brittany Murphy RIP.
I remember a friend loaning me this on VHS back in 2000 and I was totally unprepared for how funny, sharp, and sly the humor was. Even the message was smarter than most other teen flicks I had seen. The smartness of having a Joan Jett cover of the Mary Tyler Moore theme play over the final sequence as Amber sticks with it and gets the success she deserves. Wow!
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