Love Don't Cost a Thing
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Troy Beyer
Shvona Lavette Williams
Lindsey Blaufarb
Al Thompson
Kenan Thompson
Damon Butler
Film Details
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Synopsis
With his head always buried in a book or under the hood of a car, Alvin has spent the last three years of high school grinding away at his studies and working as a pool boy to earn extra cash. No doubt, Alvin's focus has paid off: he's finally saved enough Benjamins to finish building an engine he designed--an engine that's going to win him a much-needed college scholarship. But while Alvin is off the charts academically socially, he's a big phat zero. Invisible to the "Elites," the school's designer label-sporting in-crowd, Alvin spends his Saturday nights playing cards with his equally dorky friends and watching home basketball games from the visitors section. It d sn't help that Alvin is a bit of a disappointment to his father Clarence, an old school player who longs to re-live his glory days as a ladies man through his impossibly shy son. As he enters his senior year, Alvin is jonesing to kick his nerdy persona to the curb and somehow become cool enough to chill with ultra-popular students like Paris Morgan, the hottest girl in school and queen of the Elites. When Paris accidentally wrecks her mother's Cadillac Escalade, Alvin seizes the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and engineers a plan to launch him from pariah to player. He presents her with a simple deal: in exchange for Alvin laying down the cash and fixing her mother's car, Paris will fake a front--pretend to date him--and ensure his entrée into the ranks of the school's elite. Desperate to get the car fixed before her mother finds out about the accident, Paris reluctantly agrees to Alvin's plan.
Director
Troy Beyer
Cast
Shvona Lavette Williams
Lindsey Blaufarb
Al Thompson
Kenan Thompson
Damon Butler
Reagan Gomez-preston
Kal Penn
Imani Parks
Ernestine Parks
Nichole Robinson
Jordan Burg
Jb Guhman
Peter Siragusa
Michael Davis
Tim Woodruff
Shani Pride
Kevin Christy
Gay Thomas Wilson
Raistalla Moise
Sam Sarpong
Vanessa Bell Calloway
Melissa Schuman
Dante Basco
Crystal Colar
Charles Owen
Christina Milian
Nick Cannon
Ashley Monique Clark
Steve Harvey
George Cedar
Mayte Garcia
Ralph Scherer
Nicole Scherzinger
Stuart Scott
Ian Chidlaw
Jackie Benoit
Elimu Nelson
Kelly Becerra
Russell Howard
Rocio Mendoza
Maria Carmen
Ben Stephens
Crew
Phalon Alexander
Phalon Alexander
David Anthony
Brad Arensman
Jamie Arsenault
Steve Atwell
Michael Baber
Brett Bagley
Philip Bailey
April Baker
Sharon Barnebey
Jessica Bender
Stewart Bernstein
Troy Beyer
Troy Beyer
Brandi Borden
Anthony Borella
Brent Brewington
Jeff Brewis
Tayla Brookman
Carol Brown
Joe Budden
Joe Budden
Mark Burg
Lisette Bustamante
Barney Cabral
Kweli Calderon
Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon
Reuben Cannon
Reuben Cannon
Nicole Capasso
Bob Carmichael
Joe Cartegena
Mr. Mr Cheeks
Lisette Chonique
Kate Christensen
Robert Cleavland
Terrell Clegg
George Clinton Jr.
Yolanda T Cochran
David Codron
Chuck Cohen
Chad Cole
Bootsy Collins
Sean Combs
Sean Combs
Xiomara Comrie
Tom Connole
C E Courtney
Ric Cousins
Ric Cousins
Lindsay Crosby
Mike Daneshrad
Elden Davey
Don Davis
Kira Davis
Mark Davis
Morris Day
Cris Dearce
Glen Deitell
Jermaine Denny
Brad Douglas
Beau Dozier
Beau Dozier
Rama Duke
Rickley W Dumm
Richard Dwan
Bernard Edwards
David Ellis
Skip Fairlee
Frank Fisher
Gordon Fordyce
Gordon Fordyce
John Formichella
Joshua Foster
Kim Foster
William Freesh
Ronald Frost
Connor Gaffney
Jeff Gatesman
Alex Gayner
Alex Gayner
Steven R. Gehrke
Richard Gibbs
William Gilleran
Joyce Anne Gilstrap
Richard Girod
Jerome Glassman
Daniel C Gold
Lukasz Gottwald
Carol Grant
Al Green
Al Green
Sam Griffin
Tony Guzman
Peter Hackett
Traci Hale
Blake Hamilton
Emil Clayton Hampton
Lee Harper
Barbara Harris
John Hartigan
Robyn Harwood
Ontario Haynes
Ontario Haynes
Justin Healy
Vivian Hengsteler
Orlando Hernandez
Bryan Higgins
Gabriel Higgins
Timothy Hillman
Martin L. Hudson
Charles E. Hugo
Timothy Iaquinta
Alan Jackson
James Jackson
Gregory E Jacobs
Broderick Johnson
Krister C Johnson
Ali Jones
George Kallimanis
Dave Katz
R. Kelly
R. Kelly
Terrance Kelly
Anthony Kent
Erma Kent
Hakim Kent
Jasmine Kimble
Matthew C. Kime
Andrew Kosove
S Kotecha
Oren Koules
Scott Kowalchyk
Dominick Lamb
Salvatore J Lauria
Jerry Lee
Murphy Lee
Maya Levin
Nava Levin
Nava Levin
Sandy Linzer
Steve Lippross
Stephen Lonano
Tom Long
James R Lowder
Karri Lucas
Chris Machado
Alyson Macinnis
Bonnie Mackey
Jennifer Mallini
Jeff Maroun
Todd Mayne
Errol Mccalla
Errol Mccalla
Mark Mcdermitt
Mike Mcgarry
Tommie Mclaughlin
Gearey Mcleod
Cabot Mcmullen
Michael Mcquarn
David Melito
J. Larry Michael
Lucy Michael
Carmen Milian
Willie Mitchell
Gary Molyneux
Jim Moores
Tron Morgan
Walter Morrison Jr.
Ali Shaheed Muhammed
Brian Mulchy
John Munson
Torhi Murphy
Blyth Nailling
Tim Nash
Robert Nichols
Thabiso Nkhereanye
Erika Nuri
Obi Nwobosi
Redmond O'neal
Jim Oliveri
Sharon Oliveri
Jeannette Ortega
Jeannette Ortega
Steve Page
Mahammad Parks
Mahammad Parks
Chris Pavlu
Aaron Pazanti
Haydn Pazanti
Timothy Pearson
John Peccatiello
Herb Pedersen
Daniel Pershing
Christine Peters
Daniel Petrie
Charlie Portillo
Ains Prasad
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video April 27, 2004
Released in United States Winter December 12, 2003
Remake of "Can't Buy Me Love" (USA/1987) directed by James Foley.
Began shooting January 8, 1987.
Completed shooting February 1987.
Released in United States on Video April 27, 2004
Released in United States Winter December 12, 2003
