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Actors: Shane West, James Franco, Jodi Lynn O'Keefe
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Whatever It Takes
Two high school students like each other's best friends, but know neither of them have a chance. They form a partnership and agree to help each other get the girl. Just when their plan starts working one of the boys realizes that he's actually in love with his best friend. At the prom he proclaims his love for her, but she still leaves with the other guy. The girl knows she's being used and she tricks the jerk and takes a picture of him in a compromising position. She returns to her best friend and proclaims her love for him as well.
--Brandon Swenson, Resident Scholar


Analysis of Whatever It Takes
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Plot
Time/era of movie: - 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up? Yes
Age group - trouble in high school
Sexing? - guy chasing

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average
Unclothed? - Chest
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type - (woman) average
How much in movie? - 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - none

Setting
City? Yes
City: - Los Angeles
Misc setting - school

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - no torture/death
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - kissing
Any profanity? - Occasional swearing
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