Fact1: Kevin is performing with band at high school graduation party, Fact2: pitch is used in meeting by Jackie, Fact3: old classmate harbors ill will on account of girl in high school, Fact4: girl in high school rejected Brady for Kevin, Fact5: follow up article is published in which Brady
Output: Kevin Lance Bass is performing with his band at a high school graduation party. When he sees an attractive girl, his bandmates try to get him to sing to her and ask her out. He becomes nervous, and envisions himself nude in front of everyone, and faints. Seven years later, Kevin is working in advertising. He makes a pitch for Reebok that is rejected, though the pitch is later used in the meeting by his partner Jackie Tamala Jones, who presents it as hers. As he takes the train home from work, Kevin meets Abbey Emmanuelle Chriqui, with whom he finds he has much in common, such as their mutual interest in the Chicago Cubs and Al Green. Kevin tries to find Abbey by making posters imploring Abbey to contact him, and placing them all over town. He goes out with a few random women who respond, none of whom are Abbey. The local newspaper finds out about his search and sets up an interview. The reporter, Brady Frances Dan Montgomery, Jr., is an old classmate who harbors ill will toward Kevin, on account of a girl in high school who rejected Brady for Kevin. When Bradys article is published, Kevin gets hundreds of calls, which leads to his dateless roommates — aspiring musician Rod Joey Fatone; slacker Eric GQ; and art aficionado Randy James Bulliard — suggesting they date all the callers to help. Kevin rejects this idea, but a miscommunication leads Eric to believe that Kevin has approved it. A follow up article is published in which Brady portrays Kevin as a failure, which garners even more calls from women. Brady is further irritated when his girlfriend Julie Amanda Foreman, who is bothered by his grudge against Kevin, takes Kevins side. Meanwhile, Abbey is having problems with her boyfriend of three years, whom she was visiting when she met Kevin. Her boyfriend buys tickets to an Al Green concert, but then cancels at the last minute. Kevin is also at the concert, but they never see each other, despite several close calls. As Kevins roommates date the women who responded to the articles in order to find Abbey, they encounter Julie. When she tells Brady that Kevins friends are answering the calls and dating the respondents, Brady reports this as a scam in a followup article. As a result, Reebok declines to work with Kevin, and he is taken off the project. When Kevin subsequently sees Abbey waiting for a train, he tries to get her attention but she only sees him after she boards the train, and the doors close before he can get to her. Kevin also learns that Abbey responded to his public search for her, and when he learns that Eric went out on a date with her, he punches Eric. After Kevins best friend at the agency, Nathan Jerry Stiller, suffers a heart attack, Kevin visits him at a rehab facility, where Nathan tells him the story of both meeting his wife at a Chicago Cubs game, and catching a home run from Cubs legend Ernie Banks the same day, and how the two events are tied together. He gives Kevin the baseball and tells him to try to find Abbey again. Jackie apologizes to Kevin, and places him in charge of the campaigns billboards. He uses the billboards to publicly ask Abbey to meet him at the train station at a specific day and time, which garners the interest of the media, who wait with him at the scheduled time. Kevin and Abbey are reunited at the station, much to the delight of the crowd at the station, to the television viewers at home, and to his roommates watching this unfold in a bar. In addition, Randy meets a woman who enjoys art as he does, Julie dumps Brady for Rod, who is offered a recording contract by a record label after listening to a demo tape of his that Kevin sent them, and Brady is given an advice column in the Living section of the Chicago Times.