Clueless

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

Clueless landed as a sharply observed, surprisingly warm comedy that critics recognized as something smarter than its bubbly surface suggested — a genuine reshaping of Jane Austen set inside Beverly Hills excess. The main point of disagreement was staying power: some felt the film lost momentum before the finish line, while others found it consistently winning throughout.