 You Again
Starring: Kristen Bell, Odette Yustman, Sigourney Weaver, Jamie Lee Curtis, Betty White, Kristin Chenoweth, Victor Garber
Directed by: Andy Fickman
Screenplay by: Moe Jelline
Release: September 24, 2010
MPAA Rating: PG for brief mild language and rude behavior.
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
 Domestic: $25,702,053 (80.6%)
Foreign: $6,193,473 (19.4%)
Total: $31,895,526 (Worldwide)
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 No matter how old you are, you never get over high school. Successful PR pro Marni (Kristin Bell) heads home for her older brother’s (Jimmy Wolk) wedding and discovers that he’s marrying her high school arch nemesis (Odette Yustman), who’s conveniently forgotten all the rotten things she did so many years ago.
Then the bride’s jet-setting aunt (Sigourney Weaver) bursts in and Marni’s not-sojet-setting mom (Jamie Lee Curtis) comes face to face with her own high school rival. The claws come out and old wounds are opened in this crazy comedy about what happens when you’re reunited with the one person you’d like to forget.
First-time screenwriter Moe Jelline wrote “You Again” four years ago from an idea she had based upon her own life experience. Jelline reveals, “I’ve always been fascinated how high school is a blip in your life—four years—and yet somehow the emotional ups and downs can stay with some people for the rest of their lives. Anyone who’s ever thought twice about going to their high school reunion knows exactly what I’m talking about.”
She continues, “I have an adorable brother and, at the same time I was playing with this script idea, many of my friends were calling me, asking if he was single, could they be set up, et cetera. And that thought was slightly horrifying—I mean, my brother dating one of my friends? Um, NO …”
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