Just Friends

Just Friends is a 2005 film starring Ryan Reynolds and Amy Smart. Its tagline is "He loves her. She loves him not." The film was shot in Los Angeles and parts of Saskatchewan.[1]

Chris Brander (Ryan Reynolds), an overweight high school student in a suburban community in New Jersey, is in love with his best friend, Jamie Palamino (Amy Smart). In 1995, on the night of their high school graduation, Chris attends Jamie's open house party. He confesses his feelings to her by writing them in her yearbook, but as he tries to return her yearbook to her, it is swiped by Jamie's ex-boyfriend and he reads it aloud at the party. Chris is then publicly humiliated when she doesn't reciprocate the feelings that he has for her, instead giving him a cheek kiss and states that she loves Chris like a brother. After Jamie yells at their classmates for making fun of him, Chris storms away humiliated from the party on his bicycle vowing to leave town.

Ten years later, Chris is handsome and successful with a thriving career as a record producer in Los Angeles and a reputation as a ferocious womanizer. Just before Christmas, Chris's boss orders him to take up-and-coming pop singer Samantha James (Anna Faris) to Paris so that she will sign with their company. Chris objects, saying that Samantha James "Is a crazy person". We had one date and I ended up in the hospital!" On the duo's "business" trip to Paris, Samantha sets her private jet on fire by neglecting to remove the tin foil from her microwave dinner. This necessitates an emergency landing in New Jersey, not far from Chris's hometown. He takes her to his mother's house for the night, causing him to face the humiliating high school years he left behind and his unresolved feelings for Jamie.