Josie and the Pussycats, the Archie Comics adaptation from Can’t Hardly Wait directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, has come to HBO Max. The film, released in 2001, starred Rachael Leigh Cook (who recently admitted that its failure put her in “movie jail” for a while afterwards) along with American Pie‘s Tara Reid and Sin City‘s Rosario Dawson. The movie, which cost around $40 million, ultimately made less than $20 million at the box office, disappointing MGM, Universal, and the film’s stars. In the years since, however, it has become an unexpected cult classic, with stories that trumpet how underrated and brilliant it is hitting the internet every few months.

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