Dude, Where's My Car? has officially turned 20. Sweet!
The cult classic starring Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott officially reached a milestone birthday on Dec. 15 and Wanda—er—Jennifer Garner did not let the anniversary go unacknowledged.
"This week, #DudeWheresMyCar turned twenty (Dude!) and my beautiful friend @marlasokoloff, who played my twin, turned 40 (Sweet!)" the 48-year-old actress celebrated on Instagram. "Holy cow, does that mean I'm just 40, too? #WayToGlowUpWanda#CockeyedOptimists."
In the film, Garner and Marla Sokoloff portray Kutcher and Scott's characters' girlfriends. As Garner pointed out in a throwback interview with E!, "We're the whole reason for the movie, I mean really if you go into it. We're their girlfriend, it's our anniversary and our anniversary presents are in the back of the guys' car." Cue one of the most bizarre searches for an automobile in film history. For Garner, the project marked her sixth film in a long line of iconic movies to come.
Sokoloff also celebrated the movie's big birthday. "Internet, are you sure this was twenty years ago? How??!" she wrote on Instagram. "All I remember were the happy tears streaming down my face from trying to not break character."
In honor of the major milestone, revisit Garner's best roles below and hear her call Kutcher "babelicious" in the throwback clip above!
From 1999 to 2000, Jennifer Garner played Romy Sullivan, a struggling actress who lives with Sarah Reeves Merrin (Jennifer Love Hewitt) in San Francisco. The short-lived series was the spinoff to Party of Five and showed Sarah moving to San Fran to find herself, get in touch with her roots and meet her biological father.
The star played a goofy role as prankster Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend in this 2000 comedy classic.
In the 2001 movie that brought us to tears, Garner played a more serious role in the story of two best friends and their romantic endeavors as they go off to join the war.
For five seasons, Garner played the lead, Sydney Bristow, on Alias. On the show, which ran from 2001 to 2006, Sydney is a young college graduate who becomes a secret agent and eventual double agent spy in the U.S. determined to take down a rogue international agency.
Things got really hot and steamy in this 2002 film between Garner and Leonardo DiCaprio in the film based on a true story of a young man who became a millionaire before his 19th birthday.
Together with Daredevil (Ben Affleck), Elektra Natchios (Garner) fights crime in this action-packed film.
In 2004, the Hollywood actress plays a young girl who wakes up as a 30-year-old woman on her 13th birthday. From dolls to stilettos, Garner's character Jenna Rink quickly learns the lesson of being careful of what you wish for.
In 2005, Garner's titular character became an assassin and fought off the supernatural after surviving a near-death experience.
In Catch and Release, the 47-year-old actress plays Gray, a woman in mourning struggling to rebuild her life while trying to cope with the death of her fiancé.
In this 2007 thriller, Garner takes on the role of an FBI agent sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Garner's Vanessa Loring, is a woman who is supposed to become the new parent of a child when Juno (Elliot Page), a teenager, finds herself pregnant and unable to care for the child in this 2007 film.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past stars Matthew McConaughey, a womanzier who is visited by the ghosts of all the girlfriends he's left in the dust. In the film, Garner is Connor's (McConaughey) childhood friend, Jenny, who is the only woman that can resist his charming ways.
The Invention of Lying
In 2009, the Golden Globe winner acted in the film about a world where no one has ever lied until someone discovers the art of deception for personal benefit.
Garner plays Julia, a school teacher who is falling for a man she doesn't know is married when in fact deep down she has already found love with her best friend and florist Reed (Kutcher), in this 2010 rom-com that shows the lives of different Los Angeles residents on Valentine's Day.
Arthur
It's hard to imagine not liking Garner, but in this 2011 comedy, she plays a shrewd assistant who tries to further her career by marrying a playboy (Russell Brand).
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
In 2012, the star played the role of Cindy Green, a woman who let nature take its course when she and her husband retrieved a miracle child after burying their wishes in a box in their backyard.
Garner reunited with former costar McConaughey for this 2013 film where she played Dr. Eve Saks, the heartwarming physician who treated McConaughey's character after he was diagnosed with AIDS and told he had 30 days to live.
The 2014 film about one of the biggest days in sports features Garner playing Ali, the girlfriend behind the man calling the shots during the NFL Draft. Her character understands football and is there to support Sonny Weaver Jr. (Kevin Costner) through his life-altering decisions.
The Texas native plays the wife of rock star Danny Collins (Al Pacino), who, after reading a 40-year-old letter from John Lennon, makes the decision to fix his long-gone relationships and his life in this 2015 flick.
In this tearjerker, Garner's devout character refuses to give up on her young daughter Anna, who has an incurable disorder.
In the YA-based film, Garner plays the supportive mom of a high school student coming to grips with his sexual orientation.
Peppermint
After her husband and daughter were brutally murdered, Riley North (Garner) becomes a vigilante and cleans up the corrupt streets of L.A. in this 2018 action flick.
Kathryn (Garner) plans a trip for her husband Walt's (David Tennant) 45th birthday to go camping with friends on this HBO series and it quickly spirals out of control despite the fact that she has planned out every second of every day.