Whatever It Takes (2000)

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Cast: Shane West, Ben Foster, James Franco, Marla Sokoloff, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Director: David Raynr

Writer: Mark Schwahn

Advisory: for thematic elements, sexual material and language

Genre: Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Running Time: 100 min.

Synopsis: When two couples weave a web of fake e-mails, plotted phone calls and contrived double dates, they mess with fate and mess everything up in the edgy, outrageous WHATEVER IT TAKES. OK, he does play the accordion and his mom is the school's sex-ed obsessed nurse, but Ryan Woodman does have one thing in common with the coolest segment of the male population at Gilmore High-he has a massive crush on the most luscious knockout ever to walk its hallowed halls, Ashley Grant. Enter Chris, resident babe magnet, who's pining after Ryan's best friend Maggie, a girl-next-door with beauty, brains and heart. Ryan and Chris join forces and hatch a plan which, if successful, will land them both with the right girl-or so they think.

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Whatever It Takes (2000)

blissfulmexi: @coltonmuma When I saw the picture of it I screamed. I'm doing whatever it takes to be in that mosh pit.
miname0w: Watched Whatever It Takes tonight, best believe I enjoyed it. I mean, of course I would, ma man James Franco's in it, mm mmm*
AshleighCoad: I saw you, I met you, I got to know you, I like you, and now I'm going to do whatever it takes to make you mine.
SimonDyoung: @JohnCDunham I nearly text you when I saw that this morning! Whatever it takes, get him back! £60mil + Anderson sounds like a good deal.
B_Garbs: @brittschulman i watched whatever it takes last night! #sogood