The next door neighbors Nell Bedworth and Woody Deane have opposite
behaviors and hate each other: the virgin geek Nell is polite, sensitive
and well-prepared to go to Yale, while Woody is rude and his greatest
expectation is to join a mediocre university due to his abilities playing
football. When Nell and Woody are assigned to visit together a museum, they
argue in front of the statue of an Aztec god. During the night, their souls
swap bodies, bringing difficult situations to them. They first try to
damage the reputation of the other in the high-school, but sooner they
discover that their dream of joining college would only happen with mutual
respect and support.
Westdale high-school Beavers star Woody Deane always enjoyed life as a
cheerful jock, looking down upon his nerdy neighbor girl Nell Bedworth, who
lives to get a Yale diploma promising a brighter future. Then an Aztec
pagan idol curse body-swaps them. At first they sabotage each-other's life,
then learn to look at it more sympathetically and try to help out mutually
to save their dreams, in the process growing closely together.
'It's a Boy Girl Thing' uses the high school comedy structure as a basis to
explore teenage insecurities, hopes and fears. Nell (the smart, cute girl)
and Woody (the big dumb jock) are two teenage rivals who find themselves in
each others bodies after arguing in front of an Aztec statue in a museum,
which then transfers their souls as they sleep, causing them to awake in
each other bodies. After trying to work things out but coming to no
conclusion, both Nell and Woody, inside each others bodies, begin ruining
each others lives. But after all this bickering, both of them soon discover
that if they work together and help each other, a happy ending might turn
out after all.
Woody and Nell have been next door neighbors since childhood, but couldn't
be any different. He's a jock, she's a nerd, she's graduating to Yale, he's
going to second rate college on football scholarship. Despite being next
door neighbors, they couldn't be any different and neither have any love
for each other; in fact the despise one another intensely. But all that is
about to change, courtesy of a trip to a local museum, and a run in with a
Mayan god of sorcery, which leaves them in a situation where the term "Walk
a mile another person's shoes" soon occurs next morning.