Just Friends (DVD)

For Chris, High School is a complete nightmare. He's overweight and in love with his best friend Jamie, but she doesn't want to be anything more than friends. One night at a part Chris's true feelings are revealed in front of everyone and a devastated Chris runs from the part and promptly moves to Hollywood. Now 10 years later he has turned his life around and having lost a lot of weight he now works for a Hollywood agent and only dating celebrities. After a freak accident Chris and his latest girlfriend Samantha end up back in his home town for the first time since he left when he runs into Jamie. Now he thinks he has a chance and from then he has to keep Sam happy ...  Read the complete review

'Just Friends or Love Actually' was the debate; having been out on 2 dates with a girl I very much liked, I was plugging for the latter, whereas she, presumably trying to give me a subtle hint, was keen for the former. The result, unfortunately, was that we ended up watching Just Friends together. Already in a foul mood as a result, I was expecting to spend 1 hour and 36 minutes begging for the film to finish. This, however, turned out not to be the case. ***The Plot*** Chris Brander is an overweight schoolboy who has a crush on his best friend of many years. Despite an unattractive and unsuccessful youth, Chris Brander grows into a dashing and ...  Read the complete review

Just Friends.... **THE PLOT** The film begins with looking at leading role Chris at a high school party. He is very overweight and awkward and goofy, and it is immediately made obvious that he is madly in love with his best friend, Amy. Unfortunately, everyone at the party finds out about his feelings for his friend, and Chris runs off feeling like an idiot. Amy then comes out to comfort Chris and tells him she loves him too....and just when Chris' eyes light up, she adds...like a brother. Humiliated, Chris bolts from the party and the laughing onlooking students shouting that he would make something of himself. The film then ...  Read the complete review

Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) an overweight goofball has been a life long friend of Jamie (Amy Smart) but one day Chris decided he wanted to take their relationship further. Jamie however didn't feel the same way instead all she wants is for them to be 'Just Friends'. They both move on with their lives living their seperate ways. During this time Chris successes in his career becoming a music manager, admired by many women, he loses his weight and becomes a complete ladies man. One day Chris was flying to Paris with his love interest as well as singer Samantha James (Anna Faris), but an unexpected accident happens and his jet crashes leaving Chris back at his original ...  Read the complete review

Movie: Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds) is a fat guy who happens to be best friends with his gorgeous classmate Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart). They do almost everything together and now Chris wants to take it that one step further and have Jamie as his girl, so he writes down his feelings in their graduation year book ready to give to her. However Chris is in Jamie's "friend zone" and so she doesn't ever look at him in that way. On top of this the night he gives her the yearbook with the message in it, he is brutally teased by most of the school and flees New Jersey. Fast forward 10 years and Chris is a fit, slim, womanising music executive living in ...  Read the complete review