Dan Castellaneta as Diane's teacher (uncredited).Joan Cusack as Constance Dobler (uncredited).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, but she arrives to say goodbye and they embrace. Lloyd visits him at the prison, saying he is going with Diane to Britain Jim reacts with anger. Distraught, she reconciles with Lloyd at his kick-boxing gym.Īt the summer, Jim is incarcerated on a 9-month sentence. He feels justified in doing so as he provided better care of them than their families. When Diane confronts Jim about the cash concealed at home, Jim tells her he took it to give her financial independence. He suggests she accept the fellowship as matters with her father will worsen. The next day, Diane meets with the IRS investigator, who says they have evidence incriminating Jim with embezzling funds from his retirement-home residents. Jim discovers the IRS cut off his credit, when his credit cards are declined as the investigation drags on.Īt dawn, Lloyd plays " In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, which was playing when they became intimate, on a boombox, standing under her open bedroom window. Devastated, he seeks advice from Corey, who tells him to "be a man". Worried about her father, Diane tells Lloyd she wants to stop seeing him and concentrate on her studies, giving him the 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. They grow closer and become intimate, to her father's concern. Their next "date" is a dinner at Diane's, where Lloyd fails to impress Diane's father, and the Internal Revenue Service informs Jim he is under scrutiny.ĭiane introduces Lloyd to the retirement home residents and he teaches her to drive her manual-transmission Ford Tempo graduation gift. Lloyd offers to take Diane to their graduation party. She will take up a prestigious fellowship in Britain at the end of the summer. Diane comes from a sheltered academic upbringing, living with her doting divorced father Jim ( John Mahoney), who owns the retirement home where she works. Lloyd's parents are stationed in Germany for the Air Force, so he lives with his sister Constance ( Joan Cusack, uncredited), a single mother, and has no plans yet for his future. At 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.