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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In nineteen ninety five, Chris Brander is a chubby high
school senior and he is secretly in love with the
gorgeous Jamie, who is very attractive. He confesses his feelings
by writing it all in her yearbook while singing a
love song to himself in the mirror. Later, he attends
her graduation party intending to give it to her. He
(00:22):
finds her dancing and she takes him to her room
as she trusts him a lot since they are best friends.
When he returns Jamie's yearbook, she is about to read
it when her ex boyfriend Tim walks in drunk and
switches it with his own. Interested in being alone with
the girl, Chris manages to get Tim to leave, but
(00:42):
at that moment Dustin, an unattractive guy, enters, saying he
wants to sing a song to Jamie, but Chris manages
to get him out again. Jamie opens the yearbook and
reads it, but it only has some inappropriate words, so
Chris realizes that it is Tim's. He goes out to
look for him, but finds him reading the confession out
(01:02):
loud to everyone. Humiliated, he leaves the party while everyone
laughs at him. His friend comes out to comfort him
and tells him that she loves him. When he is
about to kiss her, she mentions that she loves him
like a brother and kisses him on the cheek, admitting
she doesn't return his affection. Chris cries, unable to bear
(01:24):
the mockery and the fact that the girl he likes
rejected him. That's why he leaves the place full of resentment,
announcing that he will never return and promising he'll be
more successful than the others. Ten years later, Chris has
become a handsome womanizer. He has lost weight and lives
in Los Angeles as a successful record producer and vice
(01:47):
president of an important company. Before Christmas, the CEO his
boss asks him to accompany emerging pop singer Samantha James
to Paris so she can sign with their life. Chris
reluctantly agrees because she has always wanted something with him,
but he has no interest. After their only date ended
(02:08):
in a hospitalization, Chris goes to the recording studio where
Samantha is There, everyone listens in disbelief at how horribly
the woman sings. When she sees him, she gets excited
and runs over him, climbing on top and kissing him
very boldly. She asks if he missed her, and Chris,
unable to say anything else, says yes. Immediately, the girl
(02:32):
sits him down and starts pulling down his pants, but
with her crazy personality, decides she must show him the
new song she's writing. On the way to Paris, Samantha
puts some food in the microwave with aluminum foil and
accidentally sets her private plane on fire, causing an emergency
landing in New Jersey, near Chris's hometown. Help me reach
(02:54):
ten likes and five comments. Comment The important thing is
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we are about to achieve it. Thank you very much
in advance. Let's continue since it's close to his family home.
Chris takes Samantha to spend the night at his mother's house,
who screams with excitement upon seeing him. Upon entering his room,
(03:20):
he reconnects with his teenage past, including his unresolved feelings
for Jamie. His mother is a sweet, but rather naive
and distracted woman. On the other hand, his brother, Mike,
is a clever eighteen year old teenager, a fan of
Samantha and is in love with her. At a bar,
(03:40):
Chris meets old classmates Claire and his wife Darla, who
are surprised to see his shocking transformation. However, they both
feel uncomfortable when Samantha behaves somewhat obscenely with them. Suddenly,
Tim arrives, who has become an alcoholic man with no
fear in addition to having lost almost all his hair.
(04:04):
He congratulates Chris, asks him for money, and claims he
saw him at the Grammys. To his surprise, he sees
Jamie working as a bartender. She hides when she sees him,
but he spots her and she has no choice but
to say hello. The girl compliments his physical transformation, and
he still seems very much in love with her. At
(04:27):
that moment, Samantha arrives and Jamie thinks she is his girlfriend.
Tim approaches to remind him that Jamie is like wine
and encourages him to win her over. Now that he's
quite the heart throb, he realizes his advantages and invites
her on a date, but Samantha starts calling him desperately
and threatens him. Feeling jealous of the girl. Back at home,
(04:51):
Chris looks at photos from his past. At dawn, He
wakes his brother and asks Mike to keep Samantha busy
during his date with Jamie, so he sends Samantha to
the mall with the excuse that she needs to sing
in front of an audience to be closer to her fans.
He goes to pick Jamie up and calls his friend
from Los Angeles to assure him that Jamie will fall
(05:14):
at his feet and he'll finally have her in his bed.
Will Chris be able to win over the beautiful girl
he has always liked. The two go to a restaurant
they used to frequent when they were young. He beheaves
quite arrogantly and conceitedly. For her part, Jamie confesses that
she works at the bar to pay for her teacher studies,
(05:36):
although she still lives with her parents. The waitress remembers
what they used to order as teenagers and serves them
the same, but he acts somewhat rude and refuses to
eat that mountain of carbohydrates. His brother calls him, but
while he's on the phone, Mike holds a stun gun
and accidentally electrocute Samantha, causing her to fall from the
(05:59):
second floor of the mall. A Later, when he drops
her off at home, he tries to kiss her, but
she turns it into a hug. There is a misunderstanding,
and without thinking, he ends up giving her a strange
hug with little hops that leaves Jamie very confused. Alone
in the car, he regrets his absurd behavior. He starts
(06:20):
scolding himself and lamenting while making very strange faces, but
Jamie returns for her gloves and sees him with that
weird behavior. When he gets back to his mother's house,
Chris finds Samantha totally lost and disoriented, eating toothpaste due
to the blow she took to the head. He punishes
his brother for neglecting her and gives him a wedgie
(06:41):
while struggling with him, He gets a call from his boss,
who wants to speak with his future star, but she
is totally delirious and spits toothpaste on Chris's cheek without
him being able to do anything. Later, he calls Jamie
to invite her out and rushes to find his ice skates,
but his mother confesses she gave them away years ago,
(07:03):
so he is forced to rent some he's not used to,
which make him fall constantly during the friendly ice skating date.
Chris is taken away in an ambulance after injuring himself
during a hockey game where he participated with Jamie and
three very mischievous kids who made fun of him. Jamie
falls backward when she sees Chris's saga, and the one
(07:26):
who catches her in his arms is Dustin Dinkleman, that
guy who at the graduation party tried to dedicate a
song to her, but now is different. He works as
a paramedic and has become quite a handsome man. Immediately,
Dustin mentions how beautiful she looks, while Chris is immobilized.
(07:46):
Trying to interrupt the moment, stomps and his stretcher slides
down a slope, making the situation worse. On the way
in the ambulance, Dustin just keeps flirting with Jamie, but
Chris can't speak because of his mouth injury. After a
conversation with his friend, Chris understands that Jamie is just
looking for a sweet guy like he used to be.
(08:08):
The next night, Chris once again manages to have his
brother stay with crazy Samantha and goes on a date
along with his mother and Dustin without being able to
prevent it. Everyone watches the notebook and he feels jealous
the whole night. When he returns, he watches videos with
Jamie from when they were teenagers, and later, when he
(08:28):
takes her home, the two laugh like crazy while listening
to music. Meanwhile, Samantha has a bad time when she
sings at a bar and people don't like it. Chris
goes to Jamie's Christmas party to express his feelings for her,
but Dustin is already there charming everyone with the guitar.
Back at Chris's house, Samantha ambushes Mike and demands he
(08:49):
reveal Chris's location. He refuses until she kisses him. Furious,
she drives to Jamie's house, crashes the wax figure and
destroys the Christmas decorations, setting everything on fire, and before leaving,
she threatens Chris with getting him fired. Ashamed, he returns
to his house and Jamie follows him. She tells him
(09:11):
she's not mad, and they end up spending the night
catching up and reminiscing about the past. However, even though
she basically serves herself on a silver platter, due to
Chris's ongoing or lack of assertiveness, they end up just
sleeping and nothing happens between them. Realizing that their platonic
friendship is important to him hinders his plan to be
(09:33):
intimate with her. The next day, Jamie talks to Darla
about the previous night, while Chris goes to Clark for advice.
Jamie admits that although they're just friends, she tried to
show Chris that she was interested in more. Clark tells
Chris the timing wasn't right and that his history is
holding him back. Outside the office, Chris and Clark see
(09:55):
Dustin singing to a nurse and then kissing her. Dustin
real his plans to sleep with Jamie and humiliate her
the same way he felt when she exposed him in
high school since he was attracted to her. Chris tries
to warn Jamie, but attacks Dustin in front of her,
so she refuses to listen when he tries to explain.
(10:16):
As a result, he gets drunk and goes to Jamie's bar,
finding her there with Dustin. When she gently rejects Dustin's advances,
he storms out angrily. Chris and Jamie argue again, where
he blames her for keeping him in the friend zone
and says he'll never amount to anything angry, she slaps
Chris and kicks him out of the bar. After returning
(10:37):
to Los Angeles and rejecting Samantha's continued advances, when he
sees her again, Chris realizes Jamie is his one true love.
He returns to New Jersey, declares his love, and they
kiss while the neighborhood kids watch in disgust. One of
the kids gives a cookie to the girl, who gives
it to another boy. She calls the boy who gave
(10:58):
her the cookie a friend, to which he replies the best,
before realizing he's been put in the friend zone. And
that's how this story ends. More videos created for you
on screen. If you like this channel, subscribe and turn
on notifications.
In nineteen ninety five, Chris Brander is a chubby high
school senior and he is secretly in love with the
gorgeous Jamie, who is very attractive. He confesses his feelings
by writing it all in her yearbook while singing a
love song to himself in the mirror. Later, he attends
her graduation party intending to give it to her. He
(00:22):
finds her dancing and she takes him to her room
as she trusts him a lot since they are best friends.
When he returns Jamie's yearbook, she is about to read
it when her ex boyfriend Tim walks in drunk and
switches it with his own. Interested in being alone with
the girl, Chris manages to get Tim to leave, but
(00:42):
at that moment Dustin, an unattractive guy, enters, saying he
wants to sing a song to Jamie, but Chris manages
to get him out again. Jamie opens the yearbook and
reads it, but it only has some inappropriate words, so
Chris realizes that it is Tim's. He goes out to
look for him, but finds him reading the confession out
(01:02):
loud to everyone. Humiliated, he leaves the party while everyone
laughs at him. His friend comes out to comfort him
and tells him that she loves him. When he is
about to kiss her, she mentions that she loves him
like a brother and kisses him on the cheek, admitting
she doesn't return his affection. Chris cries, unable to bear
(01:24):
the mockery and the fact that the girl he likes
rejected him. That's why he leaves the place full of resentment,
announcing that he will never return and promising he'll be
more successful than the others. Ten years later, Chris has
become a handsome womanizer. He has lost weight and lives
in Los Angeles as a successful record producer and vice
(01:47):
president of an important company. Before Christmas, the CEO his
boss asks him to accompany emerging pop singer Samantha James
to Paris so she can sign with their life. Chris
reluctantly agrees because she has always wanted something with him,
but he has no interest. After their only date ended
(02:08):
in a hospitalization, Chris goes to the recording studio where
Samantha is There, everyone listens in disbelief at how horribly
the woman sings. When she sees him, she gets excited
and runs over him, climbing on top and kissing him
very boldly. She asks if he missed her, and Chris,
unable to say anything else, says yes. Immediately, the girl
(02:32):
sits him down and starts pulling down his pants, but
with her crazy personality, decides she must show him the
new song she's writing. On the way to Paris, Samantha
puts some food in the microwave with aluminum foil and
accidentally sets her private plane on fire, causing an emergency
landing in New Jersey, near Chris's hometown. Help me reach
(02:54):
ten likes and five comments. Comment The important thing is
to get there. Help me reach one thousand subscribers. As
we are about to achieve it. Thank you very much
in advance. Let's continue since it's close to his family home.
Chris takes Samantha to spend the night at his mother's house,
who screams with excitement upon seeing him. Upon entering his room,
(03:20):
he reconnects with his teenage past, including his unresolved feelings
for Jamie. His mother is a sweet, but rather naive
and distracted woman. On the other hand, his brother, Mike,
is a clever eighteen year old teenager, a fan of
Samantha and is in love with her. At a bar,
(03:40):
Chris meets old classmates Claire and his wife Darla, who
are surprised to see his shocking transformation. However, they both
feel uncomfortable when Samantha behaves somewhat obscenely with them. Suddenly,
Tim arrives, who has become an alcoholic man with no
fear in addition to having lost almost all his hair.
(04:04):
He congratulates Chris, asks him for money, and claims he
saw him at the Grammys. To his surprise, he sees
Jamie working as a bartender. She hides when she sees him,
but he spots her and she has no choice but
to say hello. The girl compliments his physical transformation, and
he still seems very much in love with her. At
(04:27):
that moment, Samantha arrives and Jamie thinks she is his girlfriend.
Tim approaches to remind him that Jamie is like wine
and encourages him to win her over. Now that he's
quite the heart throb, he realizes his advantages and invites
her on a date, but Samantha starts calling him desperately
and threatens him. Feeling jealous of the girl. Back at home,
(04:51):
Chris looks at photos from his past. At dawn, He
wakes his brother and asks Mike to keep Samantha busy
during his date with Jamie, so he sends Samantha to
the mall with the excuse that she needs to sing
in front of an audience to be closer to her fans.
He goes to pick Jamie up and calls his friend
from Los Angeles to assure him that Jamie will fall
(05:14):
at his feet and he'll finally have her in his bed.
Will Chris be able to win over the beautiful girl
he has always liked. The two go to a restaurant
they used to frequent when they were young. He beheaves
quite arrogantly and conceitedly. For her part, Jamie confesses that
she works at the bar to pay for her teacher studies,
(05:36):
although she still lives with her parents. The waitress remembers
what they used to order as teenagers and serves them
the same, but he acts somewhat rude and refuses to
eat that mountain of carbohydrates. His brother calls him, but
while he's on the phone, Mike holds a stun gun
and accidentally electrocute Samantha, causing her to fall from the
(05:59):
second floor of the mall. A Later, when he drops
her off at home, he tries to kiss her, but
she turns it into a hug. There is a misunderstanding,
and without thinking, he ends up giving her a strange
hug with little hops that leaves Jamie very confused. Alone
in the car, he regrets his absurd behavior. He starts
(06:20):
scolding himself and lamenting while making very strange faces, but
Jamie returns for her gloves and sees him with that
weird behavior. When he gets back to his mother's house,
Chris finds Samantha totally lost and disoriented, eating toothpaste due
to the blow she took to the head. He punishes
his brother for neglecting her and gives him a wedgie
(06:41):
while struggling with him, He gets a call from his boss,
who wants to speak with his future star, but she
is totally delirious and spits toothpaste on Chris's cheek without
him being able to do anything. Later, he calls Jamie
to invite her out and rushes to find his ice skates,
but his mother confesses she gave them away years ago,
(07:03):
so he is forced to rent some he's not used to,
which make him fall constantly during the friendly ice skating date.
Chris is taken away in an ambulance after injuring himself
during a hockey game where he participated with Jamie and
three very mischievous kids who made fun of him. Jamie
falls backward when she sees Chris's saga, and the one
(07:26):
who catches her in his arms is Dustin Dinkleman, that
guy who at the graduation party tried to dedicate a
song to her, but now is different. He works as
a paramedic and has become quite a handsome man. Immediately,
Dustin mentions how beautiful she looks, while Chris is immobilized.
(07:46):
Trying to interrupt the moment, stomps and his stretcher slides
down a slope, making the situation worse. On the way
in the ambulance, Dustin just keeps flirting with Jamie, but
Chris can't speak because of his mouth injury. After a
conversation with his friend, Chris understands that Jamie is just
looking for a sweet guy like he used to be.
(08:08):
The next night, Chris once again manages to have his
brother stay with crazy Samantha and goes on a date
along with his mother and Dustin without being able to
prevent it. Everyone watches the notebook and he feels jealous
the whole night. When he returns, he watches videos with
Jamie from when they were teenagers, and later, when he
(08:28):
takes her home, the two laugh like crazy while listening
to music. Meanwhile, Samantha has a bad time when she
sings at a bar and people don't like it. Chris
goes to Jamie's Christmas party to express his feelings for her,
but Dustin is already there charming everyone with the guitar.
Back at Chris's house, Samantha ambushes Mike and demands he
(08:49):
reveal Chris's location. He refuses until she kisses him. Furious,
she drives to Jamie's house, crashes the wax figure and
destroys the Christmas decorations, setting everything on fire, and before leaving,
she threatens Chris with getting him fired. Ashamed, he returns
to his house and Jamie follows him. She tells him
(09:11):
she's not mad, and they end up spending the night
catching up and reminiscing about the past. However, even though
she basically serves herself on a silver platter, due to
Chris's ongoing or lack of assertiveness, they end up just
sleeping and nothing happens between them. Realizing that their platonic
friendship is important to him hinders his plan to be
(09:33):
intimate with her. The next day, Jamie talks to Darla
about the previous night, while Chris goes to Clark for advice.
Jamie admits that although they're just friends, she tried to
show Chris that she was interested in more. Clark tells
Chris the timing wasn't right and that his history is
holding him back. Outside the office, Chris and Clark see
(09:55):
Dustin singing to a nurse and then kissing her. Dustin
real his plans to sleep with Jamie and humiliate her
the same way he felt when she exposed him in
high school since he was attracted to her. Chris tries
to warn Jamie, but attacks Dustin in front of her,
so she refuses to listen when he tries to explain.
(10:16):
As a result, he gets drunk and goes to Jamie's bar,
finding her there with Dustin. When she gently rejects Dustin's advances,
he storms out angrily. Chris and Jamie argue again, where
he blames her for keeping him in the friend zone
and says he'll never amount to anything angry, she slaps
Chris and kicks him out of the bar. After returning
(10:37):
to Los Angeles and rejecting Samantha's continued advances, when he
sees her again, Chris realizes Jamie is his one true love.
He returns to New Jersey, declares his love, and they
kiss while the neighborhood kids watch in disgust. One of
the kids gives a cookie to the girl, who gives
it to another boy. She calls the boy who gave
(10:58):
her the cookie a friend, to which he replies the best,
before realizing he's been put in the friend zone. And
that's how this story ends. More videos created for you
on screen. If you like this channel, subscribe and turn
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