History Film / ILoveYouBethCooper

* AmbiguouslyBi: Everyone is certain Rich is gay, but he insists he's straight. By the end, he admits he's into guys, but had [[ThreewaySex threesome]] with Beth's two female friends which he'd enjoyed. After that, Rich tells Denis he might be bi and not gay, but isn't sure.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Everyone is certain Rich is gay, but he insists he's straight. By the end, he says he might be bi, but it's still [[AmbiguouslyBi ambiguous]] because he doesn't show interest in women.

* CowTipping: Rich, Cammy, and Treece come across a field of cows while drunk and decide to tip one of them. All three of them pushing together on the cow does not do anything other than starting a stampede that chases them out of the field.

* TheMovieBuff: Rich, who constantly references all sorts of movies and thinks that everyone else is referencing them too even though they've just learned cliches through PopCulturalOsmosis.

** Rich quotes a ton of movies

%% * ToplessnessFromTheBack: Beth in the girls' locker room, in front of Denis.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Denis gives one to everyone in the senior class except Beth, including his best friend during his valedictorian speech.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Denis is clearly meant to be 18, but looks alot older than he's supposed to be, due to his actor being [[DawsonCasting almost 30]] at the time.

''I Love You, Beth Cooper'' is a 2009 teen comedy directed by Creator/ChrisColumbus and written by Larry Doyle from his own novel, in which high school geek Denis (Paul Rust) chooses his valedictorian speech to let the titular cheerleader (Creator/HaydenPanettiere) know his feelings. Even though she's gorgeous, popular and has a psycho army boyfriend. Later that day he and his best friend, having invited her and her friends around for a party, are surprised when they turn up. This isn't the only surprise fate has in store for Denis, since Beth isn't quite the girl he visualized...

* SecretOtherFamily: Implied, Treece takes everyone to her father's cabin, which she comments he made her [[YourCheatingHeart promise not to tell her mom about]] and finds a World's Greatest Dad mug there which she comments that she didn't give to him.

%% * DrivesLikeCrazy: Beth.
%% * IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: How Beth manages to persuade the convenience store owner to let Denis buy some beer despite his looking underage ([[DawsonCasting in-universe, anyway]]).

%% * LovableAlphaBitch: Beth.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: Beth.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: How Beth manages to persuade the convenience store owner to let Denis buy some beer despite his looking underage ([[DawsonCasting in-universe, anyway]]).
* JerkJock: Kevin.
* LovableAlphaBitch: Beth.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted. Beth turns out to be more grounded than it appears.

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: Beth in the girls' locker room, in front of Denis.

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''I Love You, Beth Cooper'' is a 2009 teen comedy directed by Creator/ChrisColumbus and written by Larry Doyle from his own novel, in which high school geek Denis (Paul Rust) chooses his valedictorian speech to let the titular cheerleader (Creator/HaydenPanettiere) know his feelings. Even though she's gorgeous, popular and has a psycho army boyfriend. Later that day he and his best friend, having invited her and her friends around for a party, are surprised when they turn up. This isn't the only surprise fate has in store for Denis, since Beth isn't quite the girl he visualised...

* AmbiguouslyGay: Everyone is certain Rich is gay, but he insists he's straight. By the end, he says he's bi, but it's still [[AmbiguouslyBi ambiguous]] because he doesn't show interest in women.

* TheMovieBuff: Rich, who constantly references all sorts of movies and thinks that everyone else is referencing them too even though they've just learned cliches through PopCulturalOsmosis.

* BetaBitch: Valli, who steals Beth's boyfriend and becomes the [[AlphaBitch Alpha]]

* TheCheerleader: Beth Cooper.

''I Love You, Beth Cooper'' is a 2009 teen comedy directed by Creator/ChrisColumbus and written by Larry Doyle from his own novel, in which high school geek Denis (Paul Rust) chooses his valedictorian speech to let the titular cheerleader, played by Creator/HaydenPanettiere, know his feelings. Even though she's gorgeous, popular and has a psycho army boyfriend. Later that day he and his best friend, having invited her and her friends around for a party, are surprised when they turn up. This isn't the only surprise fate has in store for Denis, since Beth isn't quite the girl he visualised...

2009 teen comedy directed by Creator/ChrisColumbus and written by Larry Doyle from his own novel, in which high school geek Denis (Paul Rust) chooses his valedictorian speech to let the titular cheerleader, played by Creator/HaydenPanettiere, know his feelings. Even though she's gorgeous, popular and has a psycho army boyfriend. Later that day he and his best friend, having invited her and her friends around for a party, are surprised when they turn up. This isn't the only surprise fate has in store for Denis, since Beth isn't quite the girl he visualised...

* AmbiguouslyBi/[[AmbiguouslyGay Gay]]: Everyone is certain Rich is gay, but he insists he's straight. By the end, he says he's bi, but it's still [[AmbiguouslyBi ambiguous]] because he doesn't show interest in women.

* BigDamnHeroes: Both Beth and Rich get one of these.
** Beth when [[spoiler: she uses her DrivesLikeCrazy tendencies for good by driving an SUV through a wall of her psycho boyfriend's house to rescue Denis from getting beaten into paste by the guy.]]
** Rich when [[spoiler: he has a towel fight with three hulking baddies - ''[[MomentOfAwesome and wins]]''.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: Everyone is certain Rich is gay, but he insists he's straight. By the end, he says he's bi, but it's still [[AmbiguouslyBi ambiguous]] because he doesn't show interest in women.

* TheMovieBuff: Rich
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Denis gives one to everyone in the senior class except Beth, including his Best friend during his valedictorian speech.

* BillingDisplacement: While Hayden Panettiere is top-billed and is essentially playing the film's catalyst, the story is told entirely from the points of view of Denis and Rich. (Even the title [[TitleDrop comes from Denis]].)

2009 teen comedy directed by Creator/ChrisColumbus and written by Larry Doyle from his own novel, in which high school geek Denis (Paul Rust) chooses his valedictorian speech to let the titular cheerleader, played by HaydenPanettiere, know his feelings. Even though she's gorgeous, popular and has a psycho army boyfriend. Later that day he and his best friend, having invited her and her friends around for a party, are surprised when they turn up. This isn't the only surprise fate has in store for Denis, since Beth isn't quite the girl he visualised...

* DawsonCasting: Averted with HaydenPanettiere. Played ''very'' straight with everyone else.
** The high school pictures of the cast and above-the-line crew in the end credits give the game away (Panettiere looks around the same age in the movie as in her picture, but the others... not so much).