Rich Girl

Rich Girl is a 1991 American romantic drama film directed by Joel Bender and written from the screenplay of Robert Elliot. The film stars Jill Schoelen in the title role, along with Cherie Currie and Paul Gleason in the supporting cast. The film centers around a wealthy girl from Bel-Air, who is tired of living off her wealthy family's name and decides to prove her independence from her overbearing father and obnoxious ex-fiancé by making her way in life by becoming a waitress at a nightclub and ends up falling in love with one of the club's rock musicians. Plot Courtney Wells is tired of being seen as just a rich man's daughter. She breaks up with her fiancé Jeffrey (her father's intern), quits college, and tells her father that she is going to prove that she can be independent. Her job applications meet with rejection. A secretary at one job interview suggests that Courtney apply to Rocco's, a nightclub. The owner of Roccos discovers that Courtney is the daughter of Marvin Wells and hires her as a management trainee. Rick, a musician playing at Rocco's, makes advances toward Courtney, and Rocco tells Rick to stay away from her. Courtney is attacked in the parking lot outside the nightclub by two men she had ejected. Rick fights them off.