Clueless 🎥 1995 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Cher Horowitz, a stylish, popular, and good-natured teenager, lives in a Beverly Hills mansion with her wealthy father, Mel, a gruff litigator; her mother died during a liposuction procedure when Cher was a baby. She attends Bronson Alcott High School with her best friend Dionne Davenport, also stylish and from a wealthy family. Dionne has a long-term relationship with popular student Murray Duvall, though Cher believes Dionne should be dating more mature men. Josh Lucas, the socially conscious son of Mel’s ex-wife from a brief marriage, visits Cher and her father during a break from college.

When Cher points out that they have not been linked by marriage for more than five years, Mel replies that he divorced his wife, not his stepson. Cher playfully mocks Josh’s idealism while Josh teases Cher for her vanity, superficiality, and selfishness. Initially receiving poor grades on her report card, Cher renegotiates those with her more lenient teachers but cannot budge the hard-grading Mr. Hall. To soften him up, Cher orchestrates a romance between teachers Mr. Hall and the awkward Miss Geist. As a result, Hall relaxes his standards, allowing Cher to renegotiate the grade. After seeing the teachers’ newfound happiness, Cher becomes enthusiastic about doing good deeds.

Cher’s father professes that he is prouder of her negotiation skills than if she had actually earned her grades. When a “clueless” transfer student named Tai Frasier arrives at the school, Cher turns her into her next project. She and Dionne make over Tai, giving her protégé newfound confidence and style. When an amiable but clumsy skateboarding slacker, Travis Birkenstock, becomes smitten with Tai, who reciprocates, the social-status-conscious Cher tries to extinguish the attraction between Tai and the “unworthy” Travis. Instead, she steers her towards handsome, popular student Elton Tiscia. However, Elton has no interest in Tai and is instead interested in Cher.

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