A perfectly pink room shows on the screen, elaborately decorated with gadgets as a hotshot
beauty wakes up, brushes her teeth and gets back into bed, and opens her Instagram live.
The girl seems to be a beauty influencer, answering beauty-related questions for her
fans. She is all prim and proper with a beautiful white smile and
perfectly highlighted, blow-dried hair. The fantasy world breaks as she walks outside
to her plain house, where her mother is sitting at the table, downing a cup of coffee. She is a nurse
and talks to her daughter about her patients, including a guy on meth with a stab wound.
Her mother, who is pretty young herself, criticizes the neighborhood they live in,
calling the rich snotty families trust funders. Padgett retorts back cheerfully,
saying her mom wants her to go to college with these exact same trust funders.
There is a honk outside, Padgett’s two friends have come to pick her up for school.
She carries the dessert she baked last night for her boyfriend Jordan’s shoot today,
something her friends roll their eyes at. To them, his shooting is at a really low-key place, instead
of a lavish location like Beverly Hills. The scene changes to a guy driving to school with,
let's presume is his little sister. She is singing along to a cliche song,
the guy makes a face at the overused beat. He takes her headphones off and she tells him
not to touch her Bose, and that Jordan’s songs are really good. She frames her brother as being
jealous of Jordan, who is in the same grade as the dude, but is way more popular than him.
The guy says he is not jealous, he just does not like things that suck.
In high school, the guy wears a beanie and chats with his friend. His sister passes by
them with her friends, pretending not to know her brother. To embarrass her, he gets up and screams
at her to remember to take her laxatives. Padgett is on her boyfriend, Jordan’s set for his
music video. She tells her friends to record her going in. But as she goes live again and walks in,
she catches Jordan cheating on her with one of the backup dancers.
The video is still active online as everyone sees Padgett going crazy,
throwing the dessert she made at her boyfriend.
Her straight-haired friend, Quinn tells Padgett to stop and points towards the camera, who her
other friend, Alden is holding, showing all of Padgett’s followers the scene unfolding.
The last thing her followers see is Padgett’s snot running down her nose and her mascara-streaked
face before the live stream ends. A few days later, Quinn is in bed, depressed,
as her mother comes to her with lucky charms to cheer her daughter up, but she says she is not
hungry. Her mother consoles her, saying breakups are hard, but it will get better in a while.
And even if it's just her daughter and her for the rest of their lives, she is content with that.
After her mom leaves, Padgett gets on a call with Quinn, who avoids telling her of her reputation
but asks Padgett to go online. She does so and sees that she lost several followers in a day,
and people are calling her bubble girl, with a G I F of her snot.
Padgett is getting increasingly repulsed at the comments she is seeing, when she
gets a call from Jessica Miles Torres from Bunny Venom, a brand that Padgett advertises for.
Jessica cancels Padgett’s endorsement of her company, insulting her in a sweet,
passive-aggressive way. At her high school,
Alden talks about how Padgett had it coming, making Quinn look at her friend in surprise.
Padgett comes up from behind, making her friend quiet up about the conversation.
Her friends and her make fun of Jordan and how unruly and unkempt he used to be before he met
Padgett. And now he is the one gaining followers even though she is the one who got cheated on.
After she says that she is the one who made Jordan, Aldan mocks her,
telling her to just create another one. Suddenly, there is an announcement on the speaker
about prom, and that's when Padgett gets the crazy idea to do exactly as her friend advised;
pick anyone and turn them into prom king. Aldan and Padgett make a bet, and Aldan tells
her friend that she and Quinn will be deciding on who gets a makeover.
They choose from a bunch of difficult guys, but none of them seem to be a match.
While walking, they come across Cameron Kweller, who is taking pictures of the garbage.
Padgett insults him, calling him arrogant but antisocial, but sees
her friends smiling knowingly at the back. Jordan passes by, throwing chocolate shake in
the garbage can, making it spill all over Cameron, who screams at him as
he laughs and walks away with his goons. Padgett takes up the challenge, and the next day,
she approaches Cameron’s car as he parks. He awkwardly looks at her as she makes small
talk with him, and as he walks away, she stops him and asks him to be the photographer at a
car wash for fundraising for the prom. Cameron straightforwardly denies it, walking away.
His sister, Brin apologizes for his bad attitude and then compliments Padgett, who then asks
about her brother's likes and dislikes. Brin asks why she is suddenly interested in
her brother, but Padgett quickly makes up an excuse, saying she is just curious. Brin
suddenly remembers that her brother loves horses and works every morning at a horse stable.
The next morning, she goes to the stable he works at, meeting him and calling it a coincidence.
She says she wants to take riding lessons from him since they are friends,
in the sense that they go to school together. He says he has a lot of work to do before
school and doesn't have that sort of time, but Padgett quickly offers to help with his work,
telling him they can squeeze in a lesson if they are done before school.
At the end of his work, Cameron takes Padgett to a horse named Gilly and
teaches her how to mount up. As she is getting down again,
her footing is uncoordinated and she falls onto the floor, her arm hitting horse waste.
Cameron laughs at that, but she gets her revenge when she throws the dump onto his clothes,
laughing evilly. They laugh together.
Later on, Cameron is walking with his one and only friend when they get approached by Padgett,
who thanks Cameron for this morning and then invites the two friends to
her friend’s pool party tomorrow. When they go there, dressed fully from
head to toe, they realize that it is a pool party and everyone is wearing bikinis.
As Kweller is about to leave, Nisha, his friend tops him, giving him a slice of
pizza and telling him they can just make fun of rich popular high school brats.
Padgett walks up to them and hugs them, asking about their college plans. There, she finds out
that Cameron does not believe in going to college. She then asks them what their favorite karaoke
song is, because apparently everyone has one. Padgett’s friends sing karaoke in their awful
voices, making the entire crowd cringe. They finally end the
song and it is Padgett’s turn next. She sings and dances to Katy Perry in a
nice voice. Cameron and Nisha watch her while eating pizza, and Nisha laughs about how she
should just get a residency straight in Beverly Hills. She looks to her friend to see him actually
staring intently at the singing girl, smiling. His friend teases him about enjoying the cliche
of singing to a generic song, while Cameron aggressively denies it.
Jordan walks into the party with the backup dancer he cheated with,
seeing this Padgett's voice dies down as she looks at her ex-boyfriend with a new girl.
Nisha tells Cameron the story of how Jordan humiliated Padgett in front of thousands of
people. After hearing this, Cameron rushes up on stage and starts singing along to ‘teenage dream’,
giving Padgett a boost of confidence as she starts singing along with him.
The crowd loudly cheers as they’re both recorded singing in a good voice,
with everyone wondering who this Cameron Kweller guy is.
On the way back, Padgett thanks Cameron for helping her out. She tells him he has a great
voice, and Nisha tells her that he was in the Glee Club back at his school in Wyoming.
The next day, Brin tells her brother that his duet with Padgett has over 2.6 million views,
just then, Padgett calls, saying that she left something in Cameron’s truck,
and she asks if she can swing by to pick it up, and rings the doorbell immediately.
At the door, she gets a call from Jessica who applauds her for her new TikTok.
She says Padgett will be able to continue with her sponsorship if she can get this new
guy more popular than Jordan. Inside their house, Padgett asks
Cameron if he is free to give her horse lessons, and he obliges.
While riding the horse, Padgett asks to see Cameron’s photograph collection. He says no first,
but then says yes after she urges him. He takes her to a train station downtown,
a place she has never been at, and tells her how he takes pictures.
He then treats her with a Nutella latte and they sit in chairs and talk about their families.
Cameron tells Padgett about how his mother died four years ago and his father livs in Sweden,
and Padgett tells him that her parents got divorced and she lives alone with her mom,
who is a nurse. Cameron takes a picture of Padgett.
Her friend Alden sends her a text, getting ready to call Padgett a loser for losing their bet.
Padgett asks Cameron to go with her to Alden’s themed party next week,
the theme being The Great Gatsby. He agrees, but only if he can bring
a few people along. Brin, Nisha, Cameron and Padgett go shopping.
They try out a ton of clothes with Cameron trying several clothes but always judging.
Next, Padgett sits Cameron down in his home, shaving his face and cutting his hair.
At long last, he exits a room, clean-shaven, cut hair in a suit.
The three girls stare at him with a smile as Padgett gets stars in her eyes.
At the party, they walk in together while every girl there stares at Cameron. Alden approaches
them, eyeing Cameron and not even recognizing that it's the guy they put a bet on.
Padgett dances as Cameron takes her picture. They have fun together.
Meanwhile, Nisha talks to Quinn, who is dressed as the same character
as her. They seem to hit it off. Jordan, who just broke up with Aniston goes
up to Padgett again, telling her that he misses her and wants to get back together with him.
She pushes his drink onto the floor and tells him to forget about it.
Brin comes up to Jordan, asking him if everything is okay, but he starts flirting with her.
It is time for Alden to cut her cake, but the celebration is interrupted when Brin rushes
outside, calling Jordan a creep. She tells her brother that they were just kissing,
when he started touching her more than she was comfortable.
Hearing this, a fight ensues between Jordan and Cameron, with Cameron beating Jordan badly.
But while the group is about to leave, Jordan throws Cameron’s precious camera
that his mother gave him into the pool. He goes inside the pool and grabs his camera,
afterward rushing out of the party. Once outside, he gets angry at Padgett,
who follows him out because she is worried about him.
And once home, she gets on TikTok live to share about what happened, but is interrupted when
she finds out that the party went viral, and Jessica has messaged her with good news.
The next day, the entire school seems to know Cameron, and they all pat his back,
saying hi to him as he walks, confused. Padgett meets her friend, Alden who is with
Jordan. Padgett finds out that everything was Alden’s idea to ruin her friend’s reputation,
and now she has decided to run from prom queen against Padgett.
Quinn walks up and tries to stop the argument between her two friends,
and as Alden leaves, she apologizes to Padgett for the rudeness. She then tells her friend
that she and Nisha have something going on. Cameron, who wants to talk to Padgett invites
her over to his house. Once there, he shows her his dark room, something
he doesn't even show his grandmother. He and Padgett share a kiss while sitting
on the floor, but Padgett soon runs out, saying she has something to do.
Confused, Cameron goes to his sister, Brin for advice. She tells him to
propose to Padgett in a proper way. At the fundraising car wash, Padgett vents
to Quinn about how she must be seen as a freak for sprinting out the second she kissed Cameron.
And just then, Cameron comes up behind her, holding a bouquet of flowers and a huge picture
of her that he took. He asks her to prom. Just as she says yes, Alden comes up and
pressures Padgett to tell Cameron about him being a dare to gain her reputation back.
She doesn't get the time to justify her feelings because Cameron storms off.
Back at home, Padgett gets her advice from her mother, who tells her that she
is a strong girl who can get through this. She calls Brin and tells her that she cannot lose
Cameron. Brin decides to help Padgett and goes to where Cameron is working. She gives him some
formal clothes and then they have a heart-to-heart conversation, where Brin tells him she missed how
he used to be before their mother passed away. At the time of prom, Padgett is sure Cameron
won't show up and she gets ready to get announced as a loser.
Everyone hits the dance floor as Padgett dances, wearing a beautiful red dress. The dance is more
like a competition between Padgett and Alden. It is finally time to announce prom king and
queen, and turns out, Jordan wins prom king. Padgett Sawyer wins prom queen and walks up on
stage. She gives a speech about the fact that she is not who she portrays herself on social media,
and confesses to hiding where she lives. Finally, she hands her crown back
to the principal and walks away. She leaves the ballroom, and surprisingly, Cameron
waits for her outside, complimenting her speech. He corrects her, saying she never lost him.
They kiss and dance. Everyone else also seem happy as they dance to the upbeat song.
Later on, it shows Padgett and Cameron on a trip together, riding a horse, as Padgett
goes live and promises her fans to keep up with the new direction she has taken; being real.
She and Cameron get a tattoo that says “loser” together.