Whatever It Takes is a 2000 teen comedy starring Marla Sokoloff, Shane West, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, and James Franco. The film is based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac.

The story of the film is about Ryan Woodman (West) and Maggie Carter (Sokoloff), best friends and neighbors. Ryan pines for Ashley (O'Keefe), the popular girl at the school. Chris (Franco), her cousin, offers to help Ryan get the girl. The only thing asked for in return is that Ryan helps Chris win the affection of Maggie.In the mean times Ryan starts to have an interest in Maggie and relizes that he loves her.Maggie gets to know of this but she has already fallen in love with Chris.So what will happen?