

Can't Buy Me Love
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1.8M
- Box office
- $31.6M
- Language
- English
- new year's eve
- high school
- cheerleader
- nerd
- coming of age
- dress
- break-up
- teen comedy
- teen drama
- evening gown
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1314 Aug 1987
United KingdomGB
- Physical15DVD5 Apr 2004
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM31 Dec 1987
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1218 Dec 1987
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP27 Jul 1988
- PhysicalDVD2 Oct 2003
- Digital / OTTVOD1 Sept 2020
- Digital / OTTDisney+23 Feb 2021
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1219 May 1988
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1526 May 1989
ItalyIT
- Theatrical2 May 1988
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical611 Feb 1988
- Physical6DVD14 Nov 2003
- TV6Net 512 Jul 2007
RomaniaRO
- Theatrical1514 Aug 1987
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Can't Buy Me Love was released on 14 August 1987.
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2- W7/10
Wuchak
2/10/2018
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 brother. This is b…
- J7/10
John Chard
1/19/2019
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 most popular girl in …
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