Review of Date with Love

As this movie begins and several times throughout, we get a close up of the name of the high school that these kids attend. J.W. Hughes High School, conveniently located in Evanston, IL. Okay 80's kids, have we put the pieces together yet? Not yet, how about this, there is David who wants to take "popular girl" Courtney to prom and gets shot down. After being shot down he decides to invite a celebrity as his prom date via a "promposal" that brings to mind Ferris. He ends up going to the prom with his best friend and tomboy, since grade school, Heidi (a.k.a Watts). You all remember Watts the tomboy from Some Kind of Wonderful whose best friend Keith wants a date with popular girl Amanda Jones. Wasn't that a John Walden Hughes movie around 1987? I guess the writers were hoping that 30 years would be long enough for us to forget, as if! Anyways, it is a cute, predictable as always Hallmark movie to veg out watching on a lazy afternoon. Also, a nice homage to one of the greatest of all times, John Hughes!