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The basis of a Romantic comedy lies with two main characters, in love, drifting apart and then rekindling the love they once had. The purpose of a romantic comedy is to attract the audience, and provide simple entertainment for a period of time. There are few special effects, but instead the film is filled with cheesy comedy to put a smile on the audience’s faces.

At the beginning of the film, the audience sees flowers in a school hallway, then the camera pans to see teenagers messing around in the corridor, throwing paper and listening to loud rap music. Jamie and Brett burst through the double doors. Jaime has a stern look on her face, holding hands with Brett. Nathan trails behind holding Brett’s books, struggling and out of breath. The whole corridor silences and they stare at Brett & Jaime, whereas no one even sees Nathan. The bell rings and everyone goes to lesson, Brett and Jaime sit in the middle. Amidst, Nathan has to sit in front next to the stereotype obese loner child.

As the bell rings for the end of lesson, Jaime and Brett say their goodbyes and imply that they are going to a party or prom that night. The scene cuts to Jaime getting ready, screaming that she doesn’t look right and making her mum get her ready properly. She bosses her around, as her mother runs around doing everything she asks her to. Jaime doesn’t appreciate it.

Nathan turns up outside Jaime’s house and stands on her doorstep, in a suit, preparing his lines, with a flower. ‘Jaime, will you come to the prom? Jaime, I love you, will you come to the prom with me? Jaime, I love you more than Brett does, come to the prom with me instead?’ He then rings the doorbell, Jaime answers in a hurry and the camera shows that Nathan is holding a flower for Jaime. When the door opens, Jaime drags Nathan in and says ‘Hey! Nathan, thanks for coming to help me get ready!’ He puts the flower behind his back and the camera sees Nathan’s face fall, and his heart break.

Brett bursts through the door and runs upstairs to Jaime, where he sees Nathan in Jaime’s room. He gets a little confused but then realizes that nothing is going on, so he grabs her, kisses her and forces her downstairs. Nathan follows behind but they have already driven off, he begins to sit on the sidewalk and looks at his watch and taps his foot, in the background we can see reversing lights and the car reverses. Nathan reluctantly gets into the back seat of their car. It is implied to the audience this is a regular routine.

They turn up at the prom. Jaime and Brett go in and everyone stares again. Nathan stays outside, staring at the stars, talking to a stray cat about his problems. The cat poops on his shoe and walks off. Nathan sneaks into the prom and goes to the toilet to clean his shoe.

Nathan looks into the mirror and begins practicing his speech for Jaime later that night, for her to fall in love with him. Half way through, a drunk rushes in and throws up on his other shoe. Nathan gets angry whilst washing his shoe irately.

As Nathan leaves the bathroom, he is confronted by a drunken Brett who insists that he needs a walk outside. They go for a walk, in which Brett tells Nathan his plans of proposing to Jaime at the end of the night Nathan is visibly worried but Brett cannot tell as he is too intoxicated. Nathan then watches Brett befriends a cat by proposing to it as it were Jaime, and it runs up in to the tree and he follows. The audience notice is it the same cat which recently the only thing was listening to Nathan’s problems. Brett tries to get the cat down, while Nathan has his back to Brett, looking for a phone in his pocket to call the Fireman. He dials 911 gives the details and walks off. Brett is unaware of this, gets impatient and attempts to climb the tree to save the cat. In doing so, he falls, hits his head and becomes unconscious. After desperately trying to revive him, Nathan calls an ambulance because there is no sign of him waking up. He is rushed into hospital.

At the hospital, Jaime and Nathan have bonding time whilst waiting for news on Brett’s condition. They wait for hour upon tedious hour for news on how he is doing, but get delivered the news of his death because of the trauma caused to his head. He dies in hospital, leaving Jaime and Nathan grieving the loss of their best friend they cry and cuddle and get closer. They spend the night together. The morning after, Nathan voices his concerns over them getting together just after Brett’s death and tells Jaime that he was going to propose to her the night he died. She gets angry and asks him to leave.

3 years later, Nathan runs into Jaime and Lois at the graveyard and fall in love with each other at first sight and spend the next few weeks avoiding the fact that they‘re falling in love. Eventually, they resolve their issues about Brett and get together.

While spending months together Nathan decides it’s time to get married, and proposes to Jaime. She accepts, of course, and plans go ahead.

As the wedding day approaches Nathan feels guilty still, but assumes it will go away once the day arrives. When it does, Jaime begins to show signs she is the same as she was at prom with her mum. She bosses her around, showing how time has only changed, Jaime hasn’t.

At the alter everything is fine until it gets to the part where Nathan has to agree to take Jaime as his wife, and simultaneously Brett appears. He’s stood right in front of him, but of course he’s not alive. He’s a ghost, come back to haunt him. Nathan freaks out, and decides he can’t marry Jaime right now. She takes it personally, and they decide to have a break until he figures out exactly what he wants.

Jaime cries to Lois about it and Lois lets slip she is sure she saw Brett appear at the altar at the same time as Nathan was going to say ‘I do’ and Jamie freaks out. Amidst all this Nathan gets to the bottom of why Brett is back to haunt him. They playfully joke about how bad purgatory is, and why he felt the need to come back, whereas Jaime is upset about the whole ordeal.

Jaime admits to Lois that she loves him, and Lois questions whether she meant Brett. Parallelism will be used here, as the movie cuts to the person who is mentioned.
E.g. Jaime: ‘I love him, y’know?’
Cut to Nathan saying ‘dude, I love her...’
Cut to Lois replying ‘Brett?’
Cut to Brett saying ‘Lois?’
Cut to Jaime saying ‘Nathan...’
Cut to Nathan saying ‘Jaime...’
Cut to Lois saying ‘Nathan?!’
Cut to Brett saying ‘WHAT?’
Cut to Jaime saying ‘Yes...’
Cut to Brett pushing Nathan for stealing his girl.
Then a fight breaks out on a field, Nathan fighting air because nobody else can see Brett. Nathan starts to walk off believing he is hallucinating, Brett follows and begins to explain the situation. He explains that he is unwilling to accept the fact that Jamie is getting married to someone else, and that’s why he’s back and until he is sure that they both love each other as much as he did then he is stuck with Nathan all of the time. Nathan goes home with Brett in tow and Brett says he’s going to use the shower because heaven has ‘really advanced showers’ that no one taught him how to use, and so has not had a shower in the 3 years since he died.

Jaime comes home and Nathan tries to hide the fact that something’s wrong, as does Jaime because she secretly knows Brett’s around too. They get intimate and begin making out, at which point Brett walks in and Nathan gets visibly uncomfortable. Brett sits on the bed; he sits there in silence and then leaves. They carry on making out and Brett walks in drinking beer and eating popcorn and tells Nathan to carry on. Jamie is really confused as Nathan is making faces at a blank wall. She twigs eventually but does not say anything.

A few days later Jaime and Nathan go to the cinema and Brett accompanies them. Nathan goes to sit next to Jaime and Brett pushes him out the way and sits next to her. Jaime gets sick of pretending and begins to shout into thin air in front of the whole cinema. She tells him to move on and get a life. The whole cinema turns around and they get embarrassed and leave.

They go home and Nathan plays interpreter as Jaime and Brett have a conversation and sort things out. Brett explains why he can’t leave and Jaime attempts to convince him that whilst she missed him, she’s in love with Nathan and is happy. He becomes upset but is convinced it’s true and believes it is actually true love. They wait for him to disappear but he doesn’t it turns from a happy moment to a very awkward one as Jaime, with her eyes closed shouts ‘HAS HE GONE YET?!’

They ponder over reasons as to why he has not disappeared; eventually they come to the conclusion that Brett must prove he is happy to whoever has put him here by helping them finally get married. Brett helps with the wedding, and they get married. As they’re walking down the aisle with Brett on one side of Jaime and Nathan on the other, Brett slowly disappears and they’re at peace.

it's natural to fall in love, but love is for people with hearts not for the kids just brushing up on their chemistry.