Line #15 Film/TheHottieAndTheNottie


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3	''The Hottie & the Nottie'' is a romantic comedy starring Creator/ParisHilton, Joel Moore and [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]] Greg Wilson.
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5	Nate Cooper (Moore) cannot sustain a relationship with a woman, due to continuing to be in love with his childhood crush Cristabel Abbott (Hilton). He sets out for the beaches of California to pursue her, learning from his best friend Arno (Wilson) that she has grown to be the hottest woman in California. Nate also learns to his horror that Cristabel won't enter a romantic relationship until her best friend, June Phigg (Creator/ChristineLakin) has. And June, as it happens, is the ugliest woman in California. Not to be deterred, Nate sets about landing June a date.
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7	His efforts prove in vain, until Cristabel meets attractive dentist Johann (Johann Urb) who, pursuing Cristabel on the sidelines to Nate's chagrin, offers June cosmetic surgery. June accepts. Up until now, Nate has been disgusted by June as has every other man in the movie, but once she's got the surgery thus rendering her beautiful Nate falls in love with her instead.
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10	!!This film provides examples of:
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12	* AuthorAvatar: Cristabel is basically Paris Hilton playing Paris Hilton.
13	%% * BigOlMonobrow: June has one as one of her ugly features.
14	%% * ChickFlick: Matches the standard formula of one.
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16	* DumpMonths: Was released in the first week of February 2008.
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18	* FriendsRentControl: Cristabel works for a charity organisation, and June works at a zoo. Apparently, they earn enough to afford beachfront property in LA.
19	* GenreShift: At about the one-hour mark, the film stops being [[GrossoutShow gross-out comedy]] and starts being a standard ChickFlick.
20	%% * {{Gonk}}: June.
21	%% * TheGrotesque: June has shades of this
22	* LineOfSightAlias: Nate and Cristabel are at a picnic and she asks him the name of the date he has supposedly got for June. He comes up with Cole Slawsen.
23	%% * MeaningfulEcho:
24	%% ** The "out of breath moment."
25	%% ** That June goes on the boardwalk at night after everyone's left.
26	%% * MrFanservice: Johann.
27	* NeverTrustATrailer: The UK trailers for the film called it "The Number One Film" - adding in small print that it was number 1 film in the IMDB Bottom 100 at the time of release.
28	* TheNounAndTheNoun: Which also invents a new word to get the rhyme.
29	* RiseOfZitboy: June has acne as part of her "ugliness".
30	%% * SecretTestOfCharacter: Cristabel pulls this on Nate.
31	* SettingUpdate: Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' [-IN BEVERLY HILLS!-] With a hint of ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'', only without the dialect changes.
32	%% * StalkerWithACrush: Nate. Lampshaded by Cristabel.
33	--> '''Cristabel:''' You stalked me.
34	--> '''Nate:''' "Stalked"... [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord is a big word...]]
35	%% * WedlockBlock: As a ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' variant, this is natural, though it is a self-imposed one.

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