Love Stinks (film)

Seth (Stewart), a sitcom writer-producer, meets Chelsea (Wilson), an interior decorator, at his best friend Larry's (Bellamy) wedding. He's immediately sexually attracted to her while she's instantly attracted to his single-ness. They both ditch their wedding dates and start their own date that same night.

Chelsea tells Seth that she has only one rule: she won't have sex with a guy until they have had at least three meals together. Seth proceeds to speed date through the evening ensuring that they actually eat three meals. Chelsea agrees to sleep with him, but only if he agrees then and there to an exclusive relationship. Seth is alarmed, but agrees and they end up having wild sex in the showroom of Chelsea’s job.

The two become a couple, and seem fairly happy but Seth increasingly realizes that Chelsea is quick to anger and an expert manipulator. She tells him she loves him after only four weeks together and when Seth doesn't immediately reciprocate, Chelsea nearly storms out before, in a panic, Seth tells her he loves her. She claims her cat has gone missing and uses this as an excuse to move in to Seth's place. The cat turns up fine just a few days later.

During a Valentine's Day getaway, Seth gives Chelsea jewelry as a romantic gift and she tells him she thought he was going to propose. He insists it's far too early for him to consider marrying Chelsea, and when she disagrees they strike a deal to get engaged in one year if things feel right between them.

Over the next year, Seth and Chelsea fight frequently and reconcile with make-up sex. On Valentine's Day, Chelsea is clearly expecting a proposal and is apoplectic when Seth presents her with expensive diamond earrings instead, noting that they'd had a rocky year and proposing still doesn't feel right. She shouts and curses at him, ending their relationship, then throws the earrings into the ocean.

Seth briefly feels relieved that things are over, but Chelsea quickly files a palimony lawsuit and moves back into his house as part of an effort to claim half of what he owns. She proceeds to torture him by filling the house with rescue cats, knowing he's allergic, and puts hair removal cream in his shampoo, which causes Seth's hair to fall out, forcing him to wear a wig. Seth retaliates by farting excessively in bed and kidnapping Chelsea's cat, then tricking Chelsea to jump into filthy water by pretending to throw the cat over the edge of a pier.

The two briefly come to an agreement without their lawyers, christened with hate sex, but Chelsea is convinced by her lawyer to renege and files a restraining order against Seth to force him out of the house. Seth goes to stay with Larry, but when Chelsea turns up to visit Larry's wife, Holly (Banks), the ensuing argument leads to Holly kicking both men out.

Pushed to his breaking point, Seth kidnaps Chelsea and takes her to a planetarium, where she assumes he's going to murder her. However, he proposes to her with the ring she had previously asked for and Chelsea accepts. He gets the ring appraised, sells his house so they can start anew in another home and convinces Chelsea to get married in Las Vegas, since their families think they're insane to be getting married after everything that's happened, and renew their vows later on in a big ceremony.

Larry attempts to convince Seth to call it off, but he refuses and the wedding goes on in Las Vegas. However, when Seth is supposed to say, "I do," he instead says, "I don't think so," and has a security guard stay between him and Chelsea. He reveals that the proposal and wedding were a ploy to get her to drop her lawsuit, noting that she'd also now moved out of his home. Seth's dentist and his assistant had posed as a married couple and purchased the house, which they will sell back to him, and he had paid a jeweler to appraise Chelsea's engagement ring, which is a fake. Seth triumphantly dances down the aisle, and Chelsea furiously grabs the guard's gun and shoots him in his backside.

Police arrest Chelsea and an ambulance takes Seth away, who loudly declares that he's now "full-on Liberace" gay after his time with Chelsea. As the ambulance drives away, Seth recants his coming out and Chelsea rants to the arresting officer, who replies, "Don't make me gag you, ma'am."

• French Stewart as Seth Winnick
• Bridgette Wilson as Chelsea Turner
• Bill Bellamy as Larry Garnett
• Tyra Banks as Holly Garnett
• Steve Hytner as Marty Mark
• Jason Bateman as Jesse Travis
• Tiffani-Amber Thiessen as Rebecca Melini
• Montrose Hagins as Nana Beatrice Garnett

1. Love Stinks – Andru Branch
2. Let's Get It On – Marvin Gaye
3. Can't Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presley
4. I Promise – B. Chevis
5. Glaym Lyfe – Shady Montage
6. Fairy Tales – Kevin Perez
7. Why Ya Wanna Do Me (Like This) – Chip Allen
8. Playa Wayz – Andre Branch
9. This Thing Called Love – Jonathan Douglas
10. Na, Na, Na – Brion James
11. I Feel Good – Alexander

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