Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller), a rather shy and clumsy 16-year-old boy, asks the girl he secretly has a crush on, Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz), to be his prom date. That however never happens because of an accident with a zipper, that is rather painful and embarrassing. Only after the situation gets the attention of everybody around, Ted is rushed to the hospital, and he loses touch with Mary.
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Some years later, Ted hasn't forgotten Mary and he hires a private investigator, Pat Healy (Matt Dillon), to find her. Healy finds out that she lives in Miami, but he falls in love with Mary too. To win Mary over, Healy lies, cheats, stalks. Mary's friend and architect, Tucker, exposes him as a fraud. But then Tucker turns out to be less than honest, as he is in actual fact a pizza delivery boy, who also has a crush on Mary. Tucker tries to keep away potential rivals, e.g. Brett Favre, playing himself as a professional football player, by slandering and gossiping.
Ted drives to Florida to find Mary. He manages to win Mary's love, but then his connection to Healy is exposed. Having found out that Tucker also lied about Mary's love interest, Brett Favre, Ted thinks Mary should be with Brett, as he was the only one who did not lie and cheat to win Mary, so he reunites the two of them. But Mary says she thinks she would be happiest with him. The film ends with them kissing.
Best part of story, including ending:
It's a romcom with funny situations and lines.
Best scene in story:
Where everybody is exposed as a fraud.
Opinion about the main character:
His clumsiness.
Ted is a shy guy who lives in the suburbs of a big city. By defending her mentally challanged brother, Warren, Ted scores a date to the Senoir Prom with the beautiful and popular Mary. As he waits for Mary to get ready, Ted zips a cartain body part in his zipper while useing the bathroom. Soon the ambulance arrives and before long everyone in town knows of his unfortunate disaster! Ted ends up spending prom in the hospital and leaves Mary to fend for herself.
Thirteen years later Mary is still all Ted can think about. So his friend advises him to send a private eye to look for her. When the private eye,Patt Healy, finds her, he likes her so much that he lies about her apperance to get Ted to forget about her. When ted gets wind of what Patt has done he drives down to Miami to find Mary and tell her the truth.
On his drive down a wirlwind of unfortunate events happen to poor Ted. First he picks up a hitchiker that is planning on killing him, then he gets arrested for indecent exposure in public, then he is charged for murder! After everyone relizes their mistake Ted is released and back on his way to Miami.
He finally arives and meets up with Mary. Ted has lost the nerve to tell her the truth so he just plays along. Now Patt has relized that Ted is trying to wreck his chances with Mary. All while Mary's friend Tucker is trying to get rid of all the men in her life so he can have her for himself! Now they all have to fight it out to win Mary's heart.
When Mary gets an anonymous letter telling her the truth about Ted and Patt, Mary is furious and dumps Ted for good.
After the rest of Men try to win her heart, even NFL quarterback Brett Farve, Mary discovers she would be happiest with Ted.
The review of this Movie prepared by Stephanie McGee
High school nerd Ted (Ben Stiller) hires a private detective (Matt Dillon) to track down his beautiful high school crush (Cameron Diaz). Mary is gorgeous and every man, including Dillon and Stiller have their eyes on her, but she doesn't even know it. Both will do anything to gain Mary's love.
The review of this Movie prepared by Steve Polizzi
