10 Things I Hate About Pinky

The Pinky in 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT PINKY is Priyanka Kumara, a 17-year-old passionate social activist. She's set up a raccoon hospital, gotten vegan makeup options for inmates in the local jail, and helped YouTube stars crowdfund ring lights. But for her lawyer parents (particularly her mother) none of this outweighs her bad choice in boyfriends. When Pinky and her parents join her aunt, uncle, and perfectly behaved cousin, Dolly, at their summer home on Cape Cod things get even worse between Pinky and her parents. Everyone believes that Pinky had been drinking with a local boy and their carelessness resulted in a barn on the property catching fire. Desperate to have them believe her, Pinky tells them she wouldn't have been out with a local boy because she already has a boyfriend. A boyfriend unlike any she's ever dated before. But that means she actually needs to produce that boyfriend. She decides that 17-year-old Samir Jha, whose internship at a Wahington, D.C., law firm has just fallen through, is the perfect candidate, He's everything her parents could hope for: He wants to apply to Harvard, dresses conservatively, and doesn't have an anti-establishment bone in his body. Pinky promises that if he'll join her family on Cape Cod and pretend to be her boyfriend, she'll get him a fall internship at her mother's law firm. Things, of course, don't get off to the best start. Pinky thinks Samir is a combination of a Boy Scout and a church choir boy. Samir thinks she's immature and irresponsible and even makes a list of the 10 things he hates about her. But as they continue to play boyfriend and girlfriend, pretend turns to reality and they fall in love. And when Pinky and Samir join local activists to help save a local butterfly habitat, Pinky discovers secrets from her mother's past that prove the two of them have more in common than she would ever have believed.