Just Friends - 2005

In 1995, Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds), an obese, curly-haired high school student with a lisp, braces, and a gentle giant demeanor, attends the graduation party of his best friend, Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart). Chris has been secretly in love with Jamie throughout their entire friendship and plans to finally confess his feelings to her by writing them in her yearbook. However, when he tries to return it to her, it is swiped by Jamie's despicable ex-boyfriend Tim (Ty Olsson), who then reads Chris's confession aloud at the party. Chris is publicly humiliated and, to top it off, Jamie doesn't reciprocate his feelings. She gives him a kiss on the cheek and says she loves him like a brother. Jamie yells at their classmates for making fun of him, but Chris flees the party on his bicycle in tears, vowing to leave town and become more successful than all of them.

Ten years later, Chris has lost his excess weight and has become very handsome and successful with a thriving career as a Los Angeles record producer. He has also obtained a reputation as a ferocious womanizer. Just before Christmas, his boss (Stephen Root) orders him to take up-and-coming pop singer Samantha James (Anna Faris) to Paris, so that she will sign with their company. Chris goes reluctantly as he has a history with the self-obsessed singer. During their trip to Paris, Samantha sets her private jet on fire by neglecting to remove the aluminum foil from a plate of tuna she has placed in the plane's microwave oven. This necessitates an emergency landing in New Jersey, not far from Chris's hometown. He takes her to his mother's house for the night, causing him to face the humiliating high school years he left behind and his unresolved feelings for Jamie....