Can't Buy Me Love

1987 PG-13 1h 34m

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6.9/10

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Nerdy high schooler Ronald Miller rescues cheerleader Cindy Mancini from parental punishment after she accidentally destroys her mother's designer clothes. Ronald agrees to pay for the $1,000 outfit on one condition: that she will act as though they're a couple for an entire month. As the days pass, however, Cindy grows fond of Ronald, making him popular. But when Ronald's former best friend gets left behind, he realizes that social success isn't everything.

Director Steve Rash

Writers

Michael Swerdlick

Stars

Patrick Dempsey Amanda Peterson Courtney Gains

Lisa Christine Christiansen

Tucson High Student (uncredited)

Christopher Maleki

Frat Guy (uncredited)

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Shawn Tierney

High School Student (uncredited)

Comedy Romance

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John Chard 19 Jan 2019

7/10

Whatever happens to your popularity, stay yourself, don't change to please others. Can't Buy Me Love is directed by Steve Rash and written by Michael Swerdlick. It stars Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson. Music is by Robert Folk and cinematography by Peter Lyons Collister. Plot has Dempsey as nerdy outcast Ronald Miller, who fed up of not being popular pays Cindy Mancini (Peterson), the m...

Wuchak 10 Feb 2018

7/10

RELEASED IN 1987 and directed by Steve Rash, “Can’t Buy Me Love” is a high school dramedy about a geek at an Arizona high school (Patrick Dempsey) who pays the most popular girl in school (Amanda Peterson) $1000 to act like she likes him for a month so he can move up the social strata. Of course, this creates unforeseen problems. Courtney Gains plays his geek friend and Seth Green his little broth...