Madeline
How have I never heard of The Boyfriend School? Also known as Don’t Tell Her It’s Me. This is such a quintessential late 80’s/ early 90’s movie, just like Back to The Future, but not nearly as popular. This is when sexy on a man was a mullet and a single dangling earring. When every time there is no dialog there is a ballad. When sexual harassment in the workplace, was a “Oh Tom” kinda situation. And when fat suites in movies made people look like aliens.
The Boyfriend School Premise
The basic story is that a famous cartoonist gets sick with Hodgkin’s disease and comes out the other end a little chubby and bald. He’s nice but in a “nice guys finish last” kinda way. And that’s exactly what happens, he finds the women of his dreams and she has no interest in him. So, his sister turns him into one of her romantic novel heart throbs. But somehow, his awkwardness disappears with his chub and with the growth of his hair. And then it goes exactly where expected and ends exactly as expected.
Piglet!!
The best part of the movie is the cute little girl Piglet. Her cuteness starts with whoever named her. Piglet! Who ever named her deserves some kind of Academy Award or something. This girl is constantly putting toxins in her mouth and unscrewing gas lines and doing whatever mischievous things little girls (let me correct myself: little children) don’t normally do. In a little people sense. And the way her mother explains why she shouldn’t do any of this is beyond my comprehension, let alone a four or five year old girl’s.
My Final Thoughts
The Boyfriend School has all the marks of a bad (but oh so fulfilling) 80s film. The fashion, the music, and the cheesy easy to follow plot. Its a background movie for all your 80’s movie watching needs, for sure!
