Ronald is making an investment in his senior year. He's hiring the prettiest cheerleader in school to be his girlfriend.
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.
- 6.9
- 1987
- Released
- 1h 34m
Patrick Dempsey
Ronald Miller
Amanda Peterson
Cindy Mancini
Courtney Gains
Kenneth Wurman
Tina Caspary
Barbara
Seth Green
Chuckie Miller
Sharon Farrell
Mrs. Mancini
Dennis Dugan
David Miller
Darcy DeMoss
Patty
Devin DeVasquez
Iris
Eric Bruskotter
Big John
Gerardo Mejía
Ricky
Cort McCown
Quint
Cloyce Morrow
Judy Miller
Steve Franken
Moda Clerk
Ami Dolenz
Fran
Max Perlich
Lester
Phillip Simms
RockTudor Sherrard
BrentGeorge Gray
Bobby HiltonJimmie Lee Mitchell
Mr. WebblyJan O'Dell
Mrs. HagmerJames Gooden
Mr. WurmanErin O'Flaherty
Jr. WurmanTy Gray
DuaneWill Hannah
Camera SalesmanTodd Walsh
Stocky JonesWayne Chandler
African HostMeredith Wagelie
Freshman #1Jennifer Nelson
Freshman #2Corissa Miller
Transfer GirlLisa Christine Christiansen
Bambi La Brock
Paula Abdul
Dancer (uncredited)
Brandi Brandt
(uncredited)
Anastasia Coon
Dancer (uncredited)David Kinn
Extra (uncredited)The Lowpriest
Tucson High Student (uncredited)
Christopher Maleki
Frat Guy (uncredited)Shawn Tierney
High School Student (uncredited)
Released
en
$1,800,000.00
$31,623,833.00
- #new year's eve
- #high school
- #cheerleader
- #nerd
- #coming of age
- #dress
- #break-up
- #teen comedy
- #teen drama
- #evening gown
Reviews
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
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