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4	''Drive Me Crazy'' is a high school romcom teen movie from 1999, answering to troperiffic traditions of the genre in TheNineties. It is named after the Music/BritneySpears song by the same name, which is featured in the film's soundtrack. Creator/MelissaJoanHart as Nicole, a popular ExtracurricularEnthusiast GenkiGirl. She [[WeUsedToBeFriends used to be friends]] with Chase, the TroubledButCute [[GirlNextDoor boy next door]], portrayed by [[Series/{{Entourage}} Adrian Grenier]]. She and her AlphaBitch best friend Alicia are in with the in crowd and she is avidly planning the Centennial party for their school. TheCynic that she is, she plans on most-popular-guy ever, JerkJock Brad, to take her to that party, even though they are not dating and he has apparently fallen in love with a ditzy PomPomGirl cheerleader. Afraid of the humiliation of going to snag her own in-universe crowning SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, she asks Chase to go with her. As Chase was recently dumped by his SoapBoxSadie girlfriend, Dulcie (Creator/AliLarter), he obliges and crosses high school social dividers into Nicole's posse, going from a loser to the new it guy, to the dismay of his friends.
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8	!!Provides Examples Of:
9	* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Chase
10	* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Ray has feelings for Nicole, Alicia and Nicole are both scheming to get Brad's affection and approval, while he falls for a different girl.
11	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: it's very clear that Alicia is very jealous of Nicole, to the point of deliberately sabotaging Nicole's love life. She convinces Brad not to go after Nicole after his break up and tries to seduce him herself, and aggressively hits on Chase at a house party just so Nicole can see them kissing.
12	* BirdsOfAFeather:
13	** Dave and Dee are a romantic, played straight example, as both are [[TheCutie sweet, shy nice kids]] with a deep need for approval.
14	** An interesting platonic variation of the trope is lampshaded by Dee, who calls Chase a "kindred spirit", as both are former nerds who made it into the cool kids crowd via makeovers.
15	* BeautifulAllAlong - Chase, to the surprise of exactly no one.
16	* BecomingTheMask
17	* BeYourself
18	* ComicallySerious: Dulcie, at times.
19	* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Nicole is the blonde both to AloofDarkHairedGirl Alicia and DarkerAndEdgier Dulcie.
20	* {{Expy}}: One can only hope the creators of the film realized how much this film's plot resembles ''Film/CantBuyMeLove''.
21	* ExtracurricularEnthusiast: Nicole
22	* ExtremeDoormat: Designated Dave, who will keep sucking up to awful JerkJock types who won't stop calling him Designated Dave or treat him like he's an actual person.
23	* FakeBand: Chase is a fan of rock band The Electrocutes, who are portrayed by The Donnas (a band who did originally call themselves The Electrocutes before getting signed)
24	* GeekPhysique: Designated Dave, as well as Dee in her formerly fat days.
25	* GenkiGirl: Nicole
26	* HeelRealization: Nicole has a minor one when she realizes how mean she and her friends were to mock Ray and Dave, Chase's old friends.
27	* JerkJock: most of them, but emotionally abusive Eddie is by absolutely the worst.
28	* MeaningfulName: Dulcie, short for [[Literature/DonQuixote Dulcinea]], is idealized by Chase.
29	* ObliviousToLove: Chase is pretty unaware that Nicole has developed real feelings for him.
30	* ThePrankster: Chase and Ray.
31	* {{Tsundere}}: Duclie, towards Chase.
32	* SoapBoxSadie: Dulcie and her "edgy" passion for spoken word poetry and AnimalWrongsGroup antics.

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