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Don't Tell Her It's Me (1990)

Don't Tell Her It's Me poster
Directed by
Malcolm Mowbray
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 58 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A cartoonist fakes a new identity after his friends convince him to pretend to be a different man to win over a woman. The deception leads to a series of comedic misunderstandings as he tries to keep up the charade.

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What happens

Don't Tell Her It's Me (alternately titled The Boyfriend School) is a 1990 comedy film starring Steve Guttenberg, Shelley Long, Jami Gertz and Kyle MacLachlan. The film was directed by Malcolm Mowbray and written by Sarah Bird (adapted from her novel The Boyfriend School). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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