Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

Directed by

Steve Rash

Genre

drama film, teen film, sex comedy, romantic comedy film, coming-of-age film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 720 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A high school nerd pays a popular cheerleader to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. The fake relationship starts to change both of their lives.

lightheartedwhimsicalromanticplayfulupbeatfuncheesynostalgic

What happens

Can't Buy Me Love is a 1987 American teen romantic comedy film directed by Steve Rash, starring Patrick Dempsey and Amanda Peterson in a story about Ronald Miller, a nerd at a high school in Tucson, Arizona, who gives cheerleader Cindy Mancini $1,000 to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. The film takes its title from a Beatles song of the same title. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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