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. Ryan's roommate Hunter has tried every scheme in the book to try to attract girls. Amy, Jennifer's flirtatious roommate is confused about what she wants: for herself AND others. They're all about to find out what men really want, what women definitely need and what happens to friends when going for it... .goes too far.
BOYS AND GIRLS was born in the minds of two young writers known as The Drews," a duo of fledgling actors who found they shared more in common than a first name: a knack for writing real-world comedy and a vivid recollection of the days when the whole boy-versus-girl thing first became complicated. They joined forces to write about what happens when a person discovers that the guy or girl they most love to hate is in actuality the only person for them.
The Drews put a new twist on this classic Hollywood theme — giving it a hip, witty freshness to which college-age audiences could relate. They sent Jennifer and Ryan, Hunter and Amy into the world of hilariously recognizable dating moments.
The Drews' hilarious script drew the immediate interest of producer Jay Cohen of Dustin Hoffman's Punch Productions. Cohen brought the script to director Robert Iscove, whose deft youth sensibilities recently came to the fore in the smash box-office hit "She's All That," a comedy also starring Freddie Prinze, Jr. Iscove was excited by the idea of a sophisticated romantic comedy for today's young audiences — and at how The Drews captured the essence of the way college-age lovers talk and think - with their breezy, funny dialogue.
Iscove was also drawn in by the depiction of today's Cupid-deficient boys and girls trying to get together with one another without falling apart. "We've become used to drawing a line between friendship and romance these days but maybe your partner for the rest of your life should be your best friend," explains Iscove.
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