Genre:
Comedy
Directed
by: Steve Rash
Cast:
Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Seth Green
Running
time: 94 minutes
Ronald Miller is a high school nerd who pays
off the most popular girl in school, head cheerleader Cynthia Mancini, to
pretend to date him for a month, so that he will be seen as a cool kid by the
others. The plan works like a charm, but Ronald’s newfound popularity in school
goes to his head, and, like it usually does in these cases, the scheme
backfires.
Since we are talking about a teen comedy from
the 80’s, cheesiness is to be expected. For the most part, this is a cute film.
The acting is decent and the storyline is compelling enough. As we have seen
through the years, teenagers are easy to influence. Once they think you are
cool, you can get almost anything over, even a weird dance.
Unfortunately, my appreciation for this movie
crumbled towards the end. I was willing to give it a lot of leeway, as a product
of its time and genre, but that speech in the cafeteria by Ronald close to the
end of the film totally ruined it for me. It came off so cheesy, preachy and
lame that it was laughable. Disappointing.
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