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Valentine is an American horror film of the slasher subgenre. It was directed by Jamie Blanks and co-written by Donna Powers, Wayne Powers, Gretch J. Berg and Aaron Harberts. It was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and presented by Village Roadshow Pictures. Valentine premiered in the United States on February 2nd, 2001 - two weeks before Valentine's Day. The film stars David Boreanaz, Denise Richards, Marley Shelton, Jessica Capshaw, Jessica Cauffiel and Katherine Heigl.

The movie opens with a flashback to the year 1988. The setting is Robert F Kennedy Junior High School and it is the night of the Valentine's Day dance. A little buck-toothed nerd named Jeremy Melton is trying desperately to impress some of the female students. He asks four different girls to dance with him. Their names are Kate Davies, Paige Prescott, Lily Voight and Shelly Fisher. They all turn him down and he walks away. He finds an overweight girl named Dorothy Wheeler sitting on the bleachers by herself. He asks her to dance and Dorothy is so surprised that that she agrees. After dancing for a bit, the two decide to sneak underneath the bleachers to make out. As they begin to get intimate, a group of jocks finds them and begins harassing them. Dorothy would rather be dead than be caught in such an embarrassing situation, so she tells everyone that Jeremy attacked her. The jocks harass him further and dump a bowl of punch over his head. Then they drag him out onto the dance floor and proceed to beat him up.

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