Thursday, February 22, 2007

It's A Boy Girl Thing

What would you do if you wake up in the body of your worst enemy? In the new moview "It's A Boy Girl Thing", two teenagers will prove that the more you hate, the more you love. This new romantic comedy is about next-door neighbors who live worlds apart.

Nell Bedworth (Samaire Armstrong, also seen as Anna Sterm in the TV Series the OC) and Woody Deane (Kevin Zegers) are sworn enemies. Woody, the star quarterback of the Westdale Bay High School football team, has it all - good looks, great personality, athletic ability and extreme popularity.

Whatever the future brings, Woody has the loving support of his parents Della (Sharon Osbourne) and Stan (Maury Chaykin). Right next-door is the pretty (in bookish way), academically astute and socially inept. Nell, who also attends Westdale Bay High School. But she is there strictly for the education, attempting to fulfill a lifelong ambition of attending Yale.

Her mother Katherine (Sherry Miller) has dedicated her life to this dream - while her father Ted (Robert Joy) looks on exasperated. Woody and Nell may attend the same high school and live in the same neighborhood but they stay far away from each other. That is, until the two thrown together on a school field trip, where a heated argument ensues and results in a mysterious twist courtesy of a mischievours Aztec God. The next day they wake up in a very strange place: Each other's body.

In their new identities they set about to do destroy each other's reputation. But each other's lives aren't exactly they first thought. Can a little bit of empathy and understanding take a relationship from infuriation to infatuation?

It's A Boy Girl Thing was first developed by Producer Steve Hamilton Shaw. "Steve came up with the idea of doing a romantic comedy and a body swap movie in a teen environment," recalls producer David Furnish. "Teens have varying levels of sexual sophistication and comfort with one's body and social status. The situation created so many opportunities for comedy."