Love Don't Cost A Thing

In Love Don't Cost A Thing, an urban comedy inspired by the classic 1987 teen romance Can't Buy Me Love, likeable outcast Alvin Johnson (NICK CANNON) is looking to bust loose. With his head always buried in a book or under the hood of a car, Alvin has spent the last three years of high school grinding away at his studies and working as a pool boy to earn extra cash. No doubt, Alvin's focus has paid off: he's finally saved enough Benjamins to finish building an engine he designed - an engine that's going to win him a much-needed college scholarship. But while Alvin is off the charts academically…socially, he's a big phat zero. Invisible to the "Elites," the school's designer label-sporting in-crowd, Alvin spends his Saturday nights playing cards with his equally dorky friends and watching home basketball games from the visitors section. It doesn't help that Alvin is a bit of a disappointment to his father Clarence (STEVE HARVEY), an old school player who longs to re-live his glory days as a ladies man through his impossibly shy son. "All that workin' without any lovin'," Clarence cautions, "will drive a man crazy."