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Encyclopedia > Valentine (movie)

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Plot

Valentine's Day 1988: At the school dance, geeky Jeremy Melton bravely faces one rejection after the other when asking four popular girls to dance with him. A fifth girl, plump and insecure, agrees, but they end up making out under the bleachers. When a group of school bullies catches them, the girl claims that Jeremy attacked her. This causes them to strip off his clothes and beat him up in front of the entire school. Flash forward to 2001. We meet the five girls who were in that school gym: Kate (Marley Shelton), Paige (Denise Richards), Shelly (Katherine Heigl), Lily (Jessica Cauffiel) and the formerly plump Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw). They are all in their 20's now and trying to sort out their love lives, which is appropriate, since Valentine's Day is coming up. After a disastrous date with a loser, one of the girls, a pre-med student, is murdered by a Cherub-mask wearing killer who sent her a death threat in the form of a Valentine card prior to the attack. After the four remaining girls are reunited at her funeral, they all start receiving threatening cards and messages. At first they don't know who would want to hurt them, but eventually they figure that maybe Jeremy is responsible. Police records show that Jeremy has completely disappeared, so no one knows what he looks like. Could the formerly nerdish Jeremy have had plastic surgery and turned into one of the girls' handsome boyfriends? Who ever it is, the lone survivor has to put a stop to this spurned individual's murder spree before she, too, becomes a valentine to die for.


Trivia

In one scene, Kat tells Dorothy that her boyfriend, Adam Carr (David Boreanaz), is 'no angel'. This is, of course, referring to Boreanaz's hit TV series, Angel (1999/I). A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Angel was the highly successful spin-off from the American television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. ...


In the original cast, Tara Reid who also starred in Jamie Blanks's first film, Urban Legend (1998), was to play Dorothy Wheeler.


This project originally began at Artisan Entertainment with producer Dylan Sellers with a different director and cast members, one of them including Tara Reid.


'Buress, Hedy' , (Ruthie) originally auditioned for Jessica Capshaw's role of Dorothy. Jessica Cauffiel originally auditioned for Denise Richard's role of Paige.


During the original casting process, Tara Reid played 'Dorothy Wheeler' (now played by Jessica Capshaw) and Jennifer Love Hewitt played 'Paige Prescott' (now played by Denise Richards).


David Boreanaz shot his entire character role (Adam Carr) in less than two weeks.


The role of Lily Voight was expanded to suit the talents of Jessica Cauffiel.


'Richard Kelly' was originally offered the chance to direct, but turned the offer down.


Shot in 42 days.


Katherine Heigl had only 3 days to shoot her scenes. She was already committed to TV's Roswell (1999). Roswell was a sci-fi series created by Jason Katims. ...


At a cost of $10 million this is the cheapest film to ever have a Superbowl spot. The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League, the pinnacle of American football. ...


Cast

  • Denise Richards as Paige Prescott
  • David Boreanaz as Adam Carr
  • Marley Shelton as Kate Davies
  • Jessica Capshaw as Dorothy Wheeler
  • Jessica Cauffiel as Lily Voight
  • Katherine Heigl as Shelley Fisher
  • Hedy Burress as Ruthie Walker
  • Fulvio Cecere as Detective Leon Vaughn
  • Daniel Cosgrove as Campbell Morris
  • Johnny Whitworth as Max Raimi
  • Woody Jeffreys as Brian
  • Adam Harrington as Jason Marquette
  • Claude Duhamel as Gary Taylor
  • Wyatt Page as Evan Wheeler
  • Benita Ha as Kim Wheeler

Denise Richards On the cover of Playboy, December 2004 Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American film actress. ... David Patrick Boreanaz (born May 16, 1971) is an American actor. ... Jessica Capshaw (born August 9, 1976 in Columbia, Missouri) is an American actress best known for her role as attorney Jamie Stringer on the ABC legal drama The Practice. ... Katherine Heigl, ABC Press Tour, July 2005 Katherine Marie Heigl (b. ... Hedy Burress (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress. ... Daniel Cosgrove (born December 16, 1970 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor. ...

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Movie Review - Valentine - www.ericdsnider.com - The Official Website of Eric D. Snider (680 words)
But the killer in "Valentine," whom we are led to understand is a former grade-school nerd seeking revenge on the girls who were once cruel to him, wears a mask.
The valentines say morbidly funny things like, "Roses are red, violets are blue/They'll need dental records to identify you," and the girls are freaked out but not, as yet, murdered.
The valentines are signed "JM," and the girls figure it might be Jeremy Melton, the skinny kid they all spurned in junior high.
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