Clueless (1995) on Netflix
Cher Horowitz, rich and popular at her Beverly Hills high school, pairs two teachers as a matchmaking project. Then a transfer student, Tai, arrives, and Cher gives her a makeover.
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Plot summary
Cher Horowitz shares a Beverly Hills mansion with her father Mel, a litigator. Her best friend at Bronson Alcott High School is Dionne Davenport. After a poor report card, Cher cannot get the hard-grading Mr. Hall to change her grade, so she sets up a romance between Mr. Hall and Miss Geist, the awkward teacher, and his standards loosen. Pleased with the result, she looks for another project. A transfer student named Tai Frasier arrives, and Cher and Dionne give her a makeover, which brings her new confidence and style. Cher steers Tai away from Travis Birkenstock, a skateboarding slacker, and toward the popular Elton Tiscia. Josh Lucas, the son of Mel's ex-wife, visits from college and teases Cher about her vanity and selfishness.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Clueless (1995)
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- Amy Heckerling first noticed Alicia Silverstone in Aerosmith's "Cryin'" music video. Fox executives pushed for Alicia Witt, Keri Russell, Tiffani Thiessen, Gwyneth Paltrow or Angelina Jolie as Cher; Heckerling also met Reese Witherspoon, but Silverstone, whose only prior film was The Crush, won the part.
- Fox executives thought Amy Heckerling's script needed more boys and feared a film focused on girls would not draw male viewers, so the project went into turnaround and, as her friend Twink Caplan put it, was dead.
- Cher's "underwear" dress was credited to Calvin Klein but was actually designed by Anna Sui, then an emerging designer, because Calvin Klein had more brand recognition at the time.
- Clueless's box-office success turned the then-largely unknown Alicia Silverstone into an international name and earned her a $10 million, multi-picture deal with Columbia TriStar.
- Iggy Azalea's 2014 music video for "Fancy", featuring Charli XCX, was mainly inspired by Clueless, with recreations of the film's scenes, visuals and costumes.
- The search for Josh considered David Kriegel, Henry Thomas, Fred Savage, Adrien Brody, Jason Bateman, Ethan Hawke and Jeremy Sisto, among others; Ben Affleck and Zach Braff auditioned, while Matt Damon, Patrick Dempsey and Jared Leto passed on the part.
- Rain forced the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' performance, planned as an outdoor event, to move inside, and Paul Rudd bought gifts for everyone once filming wrapped.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar turned down the role of Amber Mariens because of her commitments to All My Children, while Zooey Deschanel also auditioned for Amber.
