This film is classic of the late-90s teen rom-com resurgence, and anyone who enjoyed filmic and TV comedies at any point over the past 20 years will recognize the murderer's row of screen talent assembled here. Talking to friends after seeing it in theaters, I distinctly recall declaring it "Shakespearean." Does that hold up?It is hard to see the anxieties around burgeoning identities, threats to masculinity, and teenage relations of domination and bullying in the innocent way it may once have been possible to do.

But wow: Susan and I start off complaining about how Jennifer Love Hewitt's character is this typically empty female lead that the male protagonist simply has to win through virtue and pluck, etc. And by the end of our conversation, we have completely reversed ourselves on this. Is this Jennifer Love Hewitt's finest work?