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Name: Love Don't Cost a Thing
Released: 2003-12-12
Cast: Nick Cannon, Christina Milian, Kenan Thompson, Kal Penn, Steve Harvey

Love Don't Cost a Thing

PG-13
1h 41m
2003

13%

age 15+

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Brilliant, likable high school outcast Alvin Johnson makes a deal with the most popular girl, Paris Morgan, when she wrecks her mother's car: Alvin will secretly fix her mother's car if Paris agrees to pretend to be his girlfriend. Paris reluctantly agrees. After she gives Alvin a much-needed makeover, he begins to behave differently, becoming an insensitive jerk like all the other guys. Can Alvin rein in his newfound ego before he loses his true friends, an opportunity for a scholarship ... and a chance for a real relationship with Paris?

Director:

Troy Beyer

Producer:

Mark Burg, Reuben Cannon, Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Oren Koules

Writer:

Troy Beyer, Michael Swerdlick

Cast:

Nick Cannon, Christina Milian, Kenan Thompson, Kal Penn, Steve Harvey, Al Thompson, Nicole Robinson, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Melissa Schuman, Fabolous

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

13%

Critics Consensus: A stale, unnecessary remake of Can't Buy Me Love.

Reviews

Common Sense Media

Nell Minow

Missed opportunity full of dubious messages.

"Love Don't Cost A Thing" is loosely based on the 1987 teen comedy "Can't Buy Me Love," and fails to improve on that tepid movie by using a milieu of black high school students.

Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Mark Collette

High school films don't have to be dull or juvenile; this one suffers tremendously from the former.

June 21, 2017

Movie Metropolis

John J. Puccio

...the movie borders on cruelty to its audience.

June 20, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 15+

Common Sense Says

Missed opportunity full of dubious messages.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that there are plenty of flinch-inducing situations including one where Al's father pressures his son to have sex without any regard to his son's emotional maturity or to the strength of the relationship his son might have. The most painful of these scenes involves Mr. Johnson demonstrating how to put a condom on a bottle with one hand while keeping the attention of an imaginary girlfriend. Young men are repeatedly told that they should be "players", not respecting their female counterparts as people but seeing them instead as objects. Finally, the movie seems to buy into a high school notion of merit, with a person's worth measured by who they are dating and which expensive labels they wear.