MOVIE · 1987
Can't Buy Me Love
ComedyDramaRomance94 min
At a Tucson high school, Patrick Dempsey is Ronald Miller, an outcast who spots an opportunity when popular cheerleader Cindy Mancini ruins her mother’s expensive outfit. Ronald offers to pay for the damage on one condition: Cindy will pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. What starts as a private bargain quickly changes Ronald’s place on campus, as borrowed status and cafeteria politics reshape how everyone sees him. Amanda Peterson’s Cindy enters the deal with her own reasons, and the fake relationship starts to blur the line between social strategy and something less planned.
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