Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)

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With his head always buried in a book or under the hood of a car, Alvin has spent the last three years of high school grinding away at his studies and working as a pool boy to earn extra cash. No doubt, Alvin’s focus has paid off: he’s finally saved enough Benjamins to finish building an engine he designed – an engine that’s going to win him a much-needed college scholarship.

But while Alvin is off the charts academically…socially, he’s a big phat zero. Invisible to the "Elites," the school’s designer label-sporting in-crowd, Alvin spends his Saturday nights playing cards with his equally dorky friends and watching home basketball games from the visitors section.

It doesn’t help that Alvin is a bit of a disappointment to his father Clarence (STEVE HARVEY), an old school player who longs to re-live his glory days as a ladies man through his impossibly shy son. "All that workin’ without any lovin’," Clarence cautions, "will drive a man crazy."

As he enters his senior year, Alvin is jonesing to kick his nerdy persona to the curb and somehow become cool enough to chill with ultra-popular students like Paris Morgan (CHRISTINA MILIAN), the hottest girl in school and queen of the

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It's shocking that Love Don't Cost a Thing, a remake of the equally bad 1987 comedy Can't Buy Me Love, was adapted in the first place, and even more surprising that it wasn't released direct to video.