When a TV producer bets her egotistical college roommate that she can turn a country hick into a suave TV newsman in three weeks, their competitive history is revived as they go to war to win the $100,000 wager.

SYNOPSIS:

Samantha “Sam” Hope, a pushy, unemployed TV news producer, is positive she can win a $100,000 bet from her equally aggressive, ex-college roommate and B-movie actress, Micki Cherry.

The bet? Sam must turn Grinder Daubenspeck, a big-toothed country hick the girls met at a country bait & gas station, into a suave TV news anchor and show him off at their upcoming 10-year college reunion.

Sam has three weeks to succeed. If Sam loses, she must work as Micki’s house maid for the next year.

Sam wheedles a free, three-week stay from a rural country resort under construction. She offers Grinder a $5,000 post-dated check to help her film a “country piece”. Grinder eagerly accepts as he desperately needs money to pay taxes on his land and to save an endangered loon species and its habitat from a greedy construction company. Sam doesn’t know it, but Grinder will do anything to save the environment and keep it the way Mother Nature intended.

Using old, borrowed video equipment Sam attempts to teach Grinder the finer points of being a newsman. Grinder proves to be a challenge, but also a much deeper person than Sam ever imagined. As desperate as she is to change him, he struggles to maintain who he is – the way the good Lord intended.

After several training sessions, Grinder invites Sam to visit his world – a remote cabin on an idyllic lakeshore setting. At sunset, Sam can’t leave because Grinder’s pet raccoon has stolen her car keys.

Resigned to sharing the cabin for the night, each finds the other infuriating yet fascinating. Love is in the air -- or in their case – in the lake, after an unplanned meet when both go skinny-dipping in the moonlight.

The next day at Sam’s place, Grinder overhears Sam and Micki discussing the bet. Hurt, he returns to his cabin to lick his wounds, but decides, he’ll show both of them what he’s capable of and do all he can to win the money for Sam, now that they found romance together.

Micki, overjoyed to hear Sam is having problems training Grinder, now plays dirty tricks to make sure Sam will lose their wager.

Unbeknownst to Micki however, guilt-ridden about lying to Grinder, Sam films a personal interest piece to expose the effects that logging and over-development have on the forest surrounding Grinder’s land, and on the endangered animals that live there. Putting someone else’s feelings before her own for once, Sam’s expose’ is her way of apologizing to Grinder.

Sam shows up at the college reunion and plays her piece for the awestruck audience. Halfway through it, Micki pulls a stunt that incapacitates Sam’s video equipment. Grinder doesn’t show and Micki is relieved she’s won their bet. Sam resigns herself to be a maid for the next year.

Grinder has watched Sam’s expose’ from behind the curtains. Realizing Sam believes in him and his cause, he saves the night by appearing in suit and tie with bonded, white teeth. He gives Sam the anchorman of her dreams and the ability to win her bet when he delivers a speech and wows the crowd as a consummate newsman.

An embarrassed Micki admits she’s broke and can’t pay off the bet. But the audience, awed by Sam’s piece, writes checks and offers cash to save Grinder’s land and guarantee a future for the loons.

In a cute twist, Micki gets her comeuppance. And yes, Sam and Grinder live happily ever after.