MOVIE REVIEW

Can’t Buy Me Love / 1987

Ronald is making an investment in his senior year. He's hiring the prettiest cheerleader in school to be his girlfriend.

6.9 / 10 (706 votes)

94 minutes

DIRECTOR Steve Rash

WRITERS Michael Swerdlick

CAST Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains, Tina Caspary, Seth Green, Sharon Farrell, Dennis Dugan, Darcy DeMoss, Devin DeVasquez, Eric Bruskotter, Gerardo Mejía, Cort McCown, Cloyce Morrow, Steve Franken, Ami Dolenz

PRODUCTION Apollo Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, The Mount Company, Silver Screen Partners III

ORIGINAL Can't Buy Me Love

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REVIEW & SYNOPSIS

Sinopsis

Can’t Buy Me Love adalah sebuah Comedy, Romance yang dirilis pada tahun 1987. “Ronald is making an investment in his senior year. He’s hiring the prettiest cheerleader in school to be his girlfriend.” Film ini disutradarai oleh Steve Rash dan dibintangi oleh Patrick Dempsey, Amanda Peterson, Courtney Gains, Tina Caspary, Seth Green.

Can’t Buy Me Love menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, Can’t Buy Me Love menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, Can’t Buy Me Love adalah Comedy yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 29, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

Wuchak 7/10

February 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 better than some 80’s teen flicks (e.g. Molly Ringwald’s movies), but not as good as others (“Fast Times at Ridgemont High”). It’s arguably on par...

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John Chard 7/10

January 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 school, one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend. The 1980s was awash with films of this ilk, the teen dramedy topped up by a big hearted message and a finale of punch...

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