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Can't Buy Me Love

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Can't Buy Me Love
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PG13,1hr 34min
Genres:
Comedy,Romance
Released:
August 14, 1987
Director:
Steve Rash
Distributor:
Buena Vista Pictures
Starring:
Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains  ...more
Synopsis: Borrowing a chapter from the John Hughes school of teen comedy, this likeable caper was a box office success. Patrick Dempsey stars as Ronald Miller, a high school nerd about to enter his senior year, who longs for acceptance as one of the "cool kids." His next-door neighbor Cindy Mancini (Amanda Peterson) is a cheerleader and one of the most popular girls in school, but she doesn't even know that Ronald exists. When she ruins an expensive outfit of her mother's, Ronald offers the $1,000 needed to ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
The struggle to graduate from geek to god has rarely been as painfully misguided as in Can't Buy Me Love, in which a well-meaning romantic (Patrick Dempsey) uses the money he'd set aside for a telescope to rent a popular beauty's affections for a month's time. Of course, in this process he also must step on the toes of his former clan of nerdish friends, and Dempsey's Ronald Miller does so with an ... Full Review
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Patrick Dempsey
Ronald Miller
Amanda Peterson
Cindy Mancini
Courtney Gains
Kenneth Wurman
Seth Green
Chuckie Miller
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Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson in a promo shot for 1987's "Can't Buy Me Love"
Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson in 1987's "Can't Buy Me Love"
Patrick Dempsey in 1987's "Can't Buy Me Love"
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