A quirky teenage girl struggles with peer pressure and self-esteem when she must choose between a date with the coolest kid in school and her budding romance with the class nerd in this heartfelt and humorous coming of age story.

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It’s Saturday night, December 1977, and Miranda Wilkes (15) is on her way to the Sadie Hawkins Dance. She has a wild crush on star athlete Jim (15), the coolest kid in school. But once she arrives at the dance, she rekindles her friendship with Edward Walker (15) the class nerd. Edward woos Miranda, and wows her with his cool dance moves, and they go on to win 1st place in the dance contest together. Miranda starts to fall for Edward, even though everyone calls him “Space Geek” due to his obsession with rockets and his after-school job at NASA. In fact he has just won an academic scholarship to M.I.T. to study aerospace engineering. He’s graduating early and leaving the next day for M.I.T., so he has one night to win Miranda’s heart. And wouldn’t you know it, after having a crush on Jim for a whole year, Miranda finally sparks some interest from Jim after winning the dance contest with Edward. So Miranda is torn between a date with Jim and her budding romance with Space Geek. She struggles with peer pressure and self-esteem but finally listens to her heart and chooses Edward as a chance to find true love. In the end, Edward’s belief in love at first sight that can last a lifetime, wins Miranda’s heart, and it helps her grow up and shed her schoolgirl notions of being attracted to a boy because he’s “cool” as opposed to falling in love with a boy who shows courage, class, and true strength of character. Miranda arcs just in time say “yes” when Edward asks her to be his girlfriend, right before he leaves for college, thus paving the way for the sequel in this award-winning script described as “Pretty in Pink” meets “American Graffiti.”