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A 2001 teen comedy starring [[Ben Foster]] and [[Kirsten Dunst]]. Like ''[[
Berke Landers has been dating his high school sweetheart Allison for years-- until the day she dumps him for the vaguely-British ex-boy band member Striker. Allison and Striker sign up for the upcoming school play, a musical adaptation of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', and in an attempt to win back his beloved, Berke does too. Unlike Allison and Striker, Berke has no acting, singing, or dancing talent, and so enlists the help of his best-friend's little sister, Kelly, to teach him the ways of drama. As his rivalry with Striker grows, Berke finds himself growing closer to Kelly... and to add to his troubles, one of the leads breaks his leg, landing Berke with a leading role!
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Dr. Oates, the drama teacher, who is very flamboyant and loves musical theatre.
* [[And Starring]]: Martin Short
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Dennis to Basin
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: Berke's friend Dennis and Kelly's friend Basin hook up, as do Felix and Dora Lynn
* [[Convenient Slow Dance]]: Subverted when the generic moderate-tempo background music gets turned up to high-tempo music the second a character asks another to dance.
* [[Fake Brit]]: Baton Rouge native Shane West as Striker.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: It's clear they were channeling ''[[American Pie]]'' with certain jokes (the horny dog, the strip club scene, Felix's entire character), and of course there's the "Shakespeare [[High School AU]]" thing
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* [[Groin Attack]]: A female version courtesy of Striker's accidentally thrown nunchucks.
* [[High School Sweethearts]]: Berke and Allison were said to be "the quintessential high school couple", and Berke wants to get back together.
* [[Imagine Spot]]: All of Berke's dream sequences, plus one with Dr. Oate ("Ms. Ross! Ms. Ross!"). In another one, he conducts to hobos.
* [[The Klutz]]: Felix tries to set Berke up with Dora Lynn, a hot girl who happens to be one in a ''big'' way.
* [[The Musical]]: Dr. Desmond Oates, the drama teacher, wrote a rock-musical adaptation of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', which includes such classics as "Fun to be a Fairy" and "Pocketful of Dreams." And is ''hilarious''.
* [[My Sister Is Off-Limits]]: Felix acts like this toward Kelly, which becomes problematic when Berke starts showing interest... Subverted in the end when Felix grows to accept it.
* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: Berke's parents are hosts on a sex talk show, much to Berke's chagrin.
* [[Pair the Spares]]: At the end. Berke's friend (played by Sisquo) finally get's Kelly's best friend, and Felix nets Dora Lynn.
* [[School Play]]
* [[Serenade Your Lover]]: Perhaps as a parody/homage to ''[[
* [[She's All Grown Up]]: Allison at the start of the movie (consider she and Berke used to [[Playing Doctor|"play doctor"]])
* [[Show Within a Show]]
* [[Ted
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Pretty well everyone who went to an English-speaking school has read the original play. <ref>If you haven't, no, we don't care.</ref>
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The opening credits sequence begins right after Allison dumps Berke and features an elaborately [[Spontaneous Choreography|choreographed]] song and dance rendition of... ''Love Will Keep Us Together''.
* [[Sudden Musical Ending]]: Sure, the movie is about a stage musical, but the big song and dance at the end take place after the show's over.
▲* [[Ted Baxter]]: Dr. Oates again, who claims to have nearly composed a song with Diana Ross (what he means is she stepped on his cassette as she walked past a media frenzy)
* [[Unrequited Love Switcheroo]]: Berke spends most of the movie pining after Allison, but it's only as he becomes attracted to Kelly that she tries to get back together with him. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}
* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]]: Striker pulls out a pair of nunchucks to intimidate Berke, leading him to shout, "Who keeps nunchucks in their pants?!"
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