Nobody's Perfect (1990 Film)
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''Nobody's Perfect'' is a 1990 American
comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
directed by Robert Kaylor and starring
Chad Lowe Charles Davis Lowe II (born January 15, 1968) is an American actor and director. He is the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe. He won an Emmy Award for his supporting role in '' Life Goes On'' as a young man living with HIV. He has had recurrin ...
and Gail O'Grady.


Plot

Stephen is kicked off his college's tennis team when his crush on his fellow tennis player Shelly makes it difficult for him to focus on playing. His friends Andy and Jackie convince him to go along with their plan to help him get closer to Shelly by coaching him through cross-dressing as his new female persona, the transfer student Stephanie. After avoiding detection in the women's locker room, he tries out for and joins the women's tennis team. Shelly asks Stephen to become her new roommate, to prevent her aggressive boyfriend from moving in with her, and he accepts the offer. He lives a double life for some time, taking classes both as himself and as Stephanie, and narrowly avoids getting found out several times, such as when having to undergo a medical exam. Shelly eventually learns of the scheme when seeing him urinating standing up, and is upset about his deception; the two pretend that Stephanie has moved home to Europe due to illness in the family, to explain his absence from tennis practice going forward. Andy still wants Stephen to remain on the women's tennis team, but admits that it is due to having betted money on an upcoming tennis match; when Stephen risks suspension over plagiarism after having submitted the same barely-modified essay both as himself and as Stephanie, Andy apologizes by dressing up like Stephanie to take the blame, clearing Stephen's name. Stephen again assumes his female persona to join Shelly for the tennis match, and the two confess their love for each other. A talent scout in the audience is impressed and talks to Andy — who claims to be their manager — about signing both of them on to play professionally in international women's tennis. They win the match and kiss.


Cast

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Chad Lowe Charles Davis Lowe II (born January 15, 1968) is an American actor and director. He is the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe. He won an Emmy Award for his supporting role in '' Life Goes On'' as a young man living with HIV. He has had recurrin ...
as Stephen/Stephanie * Gail O'Grady as Shelly * Patrick Breen as Andy * Kim Flowers as Jackie *
Robert Vaughn Robert Francis Vaughn (November 22, 1932 – November 11, 2016) was an American actor and political activist, whose career in film, television and theater spanned nearly six decades and who was best known for his role as secret agent Nap ...
as Dr. Duncan * Eric Bruskotter as Stanley * Carmen More as Carla * Todd Caldecott as Brad * Annie Korzen as Professor Lucci * Mariann Aalda as Coach Harrison * Marcia Karr as Marge * Nomi Mitty as Mrs. Parker


Filming locations

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Pepperdine University Pepperdine University () is a private university, private Christianity, Christian research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ, with its main campus in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Pepperdine's main campus consists ...
campus: Portrayed as "Bramson College". Payson Library was renamed as Krozen Library and Firestone Fieldhouse was renamed Trembath Fieldhouse.


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* * 1990 films 1990 comedy films American comedy films Cross-dressing in American films Tennis films 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{1990s-US-comedy-film-stub