Pettyfer is Kyle, a tall blonde hunk who opens the film exercising in his Manhattan window for all to see, grinning and smirking knowing he’s being watched and appreciated, not just by the people outside his window but by us, the viewers. It’s an interesting moment, and we become complicit.
Kyle’s a high school alpha dog who wins a student election through various unsavory means, supported by his adoring, subservient friends. Across a crowded room he spots Lindy (Hudgens), a scholarship student who will have none of him. She lets him know she’s no fan. She’s authentic.
Kendra, a flamboyant Goth classmate played by Mary Kate Olsen, is suspected of being a witch, which she is. Kyle makes the mistake of crossing her in the romance department so she decides to punish him – cursing him with a spell that turns him into a tattooed, scarred freak. It’s the worst she could do to a man who has lived his life beautiful.
Kyle’s remote and seriously disgusted father banishes him to a secret but gracious home across New York’s bridges and tunnels (the horror!). Neil Patrick Harris moves in as his helper and through a series of events, Lindy winds up living with them. She doesn’t know it’s Kyle, as far as she knows, he’s a hideous unfortunate with enough money to hide in style.
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