Movie  1989
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Charles Highway: If there's one thing that mothers don't want to see in you it's whatever it is that their daughters do.
Charles Highway: You spend 15-20 minutes trying not to come and then when you do you have to give a pretty credible performance.
Charles Highway: The best first impressions are the ones that are misleading. I mean, you can be whoever you want and whoever they want you to be.
Charles Highway: Now, I'm surprisingly ineffective on the telephone so I find there are four basic requirements I need on making the first call. Number 1: visual stimulants. Number 2: other stimulants. Number 3: mood music. And, most importantly, number 4: a tight and effective working script.

Charles Highway: Well, that's crap. Who's ever got time to act natural with a girl?
Charles Highway: I notice you don't have a drink.
RachelNoyce: Are you giving this party?
Charles Highway: Certainly not. Parties of this kind are not given, they're received.
Description
Computer geeks usually don't get the girls but imagine how things would change if a computer program could help! This "amusing, sharply acted" (Variety) teen comedy follows a young genius as he allows his raging hormones, high intellect and desktop computer'to ensnare him in the most unsolvable of all equations: love! Nineteen-year-old whiz kid Charles Highway (Dexter Fletcher) has developed a computer program that can attract any woman he fancies. But despite his computer know-how, Charles' current project, the sweet and beautiful Rachel Noyce (Ione Skye, Say Anything) refusesto download her affections! And when he falls head over heels with her, everything short-circuits for this cyber-lothario and he finally gets a taste of how much unrequited love mega-hurts!