Can't Buy Me Love

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.…

★ 6.9/10 · 738 TMDB audience ratings

Starring

• Patrick DempseyRonald Miller
• Amanda PetersonCindy Mancini
• Courtney GainsKenneth Wurman
• Tina CasparyBarbara
• Seth GreenChuckie Miller
• Sharon FarrellMrs. Mancini
• Dennis DuganDavid Miller
• Darcy DeMossPatty

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Audience reviews from TMDB · may contain spoilers

Wuchak: RELEASED IN 1987 and directed by Steve Rash, “Can’t Buy Me Love” is a high school dramedy about a geek at an Arizona… Read full review

John Chard: 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… Read full review

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