Just One of the 80s Movies

Wow. I saw most of Just One of the Guys on TV today, and it is awesome. Basically, Terry is a girl who poses as a guy at another school for a journalism story. Then she falls in love with a guy named Rick as a guy. She deals with this problem by giving Rick a makeover and trying to find a prom date. Then everything comes crashing down at prom when Terry's boyfriend shows up and Terry has to confess to Rick. To get him to believe she's a girl and not gay, she has to flash him her boobs. And then to try to prevent him from running away angrily, she kisses him in front of the whole prom, who still thinks she's a guy. Oh man it's so dramatic. I won't tell you whether she and Rick get together. I don't want to ruin it for you.

Partly this movie is so awesome because it's so gender-bendy. And partly it's so awesome because it's so 80s. And partly it's so gender-bendy because it's the 80s. Terry can get away with both male and female personas because it's the age of Pat Benatar and Elvis Costello/Karate Kid (which one girl who wants her as a guy describes her male persona as). And the movie has one of my favorite lines of all time. After she flashes her boobs at Rick, his response is: Where do you get off having tits? Where do you get off having tits? That's comic gold. Comic GOLD.