Despite being good looking and wealthy, he’s still insecure around his unrequited crush, trying desperately to have her see him as more than just a friend. Chris is a rather unlikeable character until he’s finally able to shed the “success story” and just be himself around Jamie. Chris and Mike’s interactions are fraught with insults and physical fighting which I probably shouldn’t have found as funny as I did.Īnna Faris has a sort of crazed, manic energy about her which helps transform Samantha into an amusing stereotype rather than just a horribly unfunny one. While Chris puts off taking Samantha to Paris in order to spend time with Jamie, he pushes the singer off on his brother, Mike ( Chris Marquette) who does a terrible job at keeping her out of trouble. Dusty is now an EMT, sensitive and handsome and charms Jamie with his song, Jamie Smiles. Competing for her love is Dusty Dinkleman ( Chris Klein), a former classmate who tried to woo Jamie with song but couldn’t get past his stuttering to ever get past the first two notes. He eventually drops the obnoxious personal and slowly reverts back to the “nerd” he was in high school as he tries to win Jamie’s affection. He’s in better shape and has a good job, but being home also brings out Chris’s long-buried insecurities, and Jamie simply isn’t impressed with the name dropping and rudeness that Chris feels like will appeal to her.

While home, Chris reconnects with a couple of his friends, including Jamie, and is eager to show her that he’s no longer the overweight, sensitive nerd that she once thought of as a brother.

Unfortunately, just before Christmas, Chris gets stranded in New Jersey with egocentric pop singer Samantha James ( Anna Faris) on their way to Paris, and Chris is forced to drop in on his mother to stay the night while Samantha’s plane is repaired. who has avoided having to return home after being humiliated at a graduation party a decade earlier when attempting to tell his best friend Jamie ( Amy Smart) that he was in love with her. Chris Brander ( Ryan Reynolds) is a record executive in L.A.

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