Lloyd comforts Diane, who is afraid of flying, on their flight. She gives him the pen she gave Lloyd, asking him to write to her in Britain. Lloyd gives him a letter from Diane saying she cannot forgive him, but she arrives to say goodbye and they embrace. Lloyd visits him at the prison and says that he will go with Diane to Britain Jim reacts with anger.
Distraught, she reconciles with Lloyd at the gym where he trains as a kick-boxer.īy the end of the summer, Jim has been incarcerated on a 9-month sentence.
After Diane discovers cash concealed at home, Jim tells her he stole the money to give her financial independence, justifying it by saying he provided better care to the victims of his embezzlement than their families did. He advises her to accept the fellowship as matters with her father will worsen. The next day, Diane meets with the IRS investigator, who explains that they have evidence suggesting Jim has been embezzling funds from his retirement-home residents. The IRS cuts off Jim's credit, and his credit cards are declined when he tries to buy Diane a luggage set, as the investigation drags on.Īt dawn, Lloyd plays " In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, the song that was playing when they became intimate, on a boombox while standing under her open bedroom window. Devastated, Lloyd seeks advice from Corey, who tells him to "be a man". Diane, worried about her father, tells Lloyd she wants to stop seeing him and concentrate on her studies, and tells him to take her pen. Jim urges Diane to break up with Lloyd, feeling he is not an appropriate match, and suggests she give Lloyd a pen as a parting gift. Lloyd's musician friend Corey, who has never gotten over her cheating ex-boyfriend, Joe, warns him to take care of Diane. Their relationship grows intimate and they have sex, to her father's concern. Diane takes Lloyd to meet the residents of the retirement home and he teaches her to drive the manual-transmission Ford Tempo that her father gave her as a graduation present. Their next "date" is a dinner at the Court household, where Lloyd fails to impress Diane's family, and Jim is informed that he is under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service. She agrees, to the surprise of her classmates. Lloyd asks Diane to accompany him to their after-graduation all-night party. She is due to take up a prestigious fellowship in Britain at the end of the summer. Diane comes from a sheltered academic upbringing and lives with her doting divorced father Jim ( John Mahoney), who owns the retirement home where she works. Lloyd's parents are in England on Air Force duty, so he lives with his sister Constance ( Joan Cusack, uncredited), a single mother, and has no plans for his future. Near the end of their senior year of high school, noble underachiever Lloyd Dobler ( John Cusack) falls for valedictorian Diane Court ( Ione Skye) and plans to ask her out, though they belong to different social groups.
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