Patrick Dempsey stars as what is referred to as a dork in the movie but what we would probably refer to as normal today. Truth is in real high school, there are far more dorks and/or normal kids than there are hotties and cool types. However, only a dork would pay $1000 to make a girl pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. Of course the typical complications ensue, but the movie forces us to see the failure of Dempsey's ways over and over. The fact is most girls would be turned off by the desperation that they would gladly shake themselves loose after a month's time. This 80's male fantasy film tries to convince us that the Patrick Dempsey types of the high school world would quickly turn into big-headed jerks, and the cool hottie girl in high school is as nice as pie. The supporting student roles are so stereotyped in the film they border on parodies of themselves. The film is inspirational though in that it demonstrates to those of us dorks who toiled beyond high school scouring the world for female companionship (for no other reason than nobody wanted us) that we should have just been ourselves, and we would have been fine. Yeah I can just see thousands of hottie cheerleader types flocking to thin, gangly guys with no sense of high school fashion because gangly guys are just being themselves. For sure... The irony is Patrick Dempsey is now a hottie among the 40's set courtesy of Grey's Anatomy. ** of 4 stars.
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