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MPAA Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 96 minutes
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date (US): June 16, 2000

Ryan (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Jennifer (Claire Forlani) are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed each other. But when they meet in college, the uptight Ryan and the free-spirited Jennifer find that their differences bind them together and a rare friendship develops.
From the moment they first meet as kids on an airplane, Jennifer and Ryan set the tone for their life-long relationship: fighting and flirting with equal skill. Over the next few years they will meet again at various intervals, developing a real passion for despising one another. But by the time they both get to the University of California at Berkeley, their decade-long antagonism starts turning to friendship - brutally honest, no-holds-barred, true-thing friendship - the kind only one unexpected thing could possibly destroy: sex.
Boys and Girls takes a look at the essential contradictions of relationships - aversion versus attraction, friendship versus romance, men versus women - through a comically different prism: college dating. Starting from the age when boys and girls naturally avoid one another's "cooties", the story of Jennifer and Ryan progresses to that fateful moment when a man and a woman are faced with feelings that go beyond being just friends. But the college education includes the study of relationships. And all of Jennifer and Ryan's friends have a unique opinion about how the game is played.
Now with the help of their roommates - the wild and ever hopeful Hunter (Jason Biggs) and the flirtatious Amy (Amanda Detmer) - they're about to find out what men really want, what women definitely need and what happens to friends when going for it... goes too far.