Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Inexplicably this movie is one of my favorite of all time. It isn't drop dead hilarious, or particularly well acted. It even has some pretty stupid and condescending stereotypes and silly typecast characters (the nerds, jocks, little pest brother, hot-but-stupid cheerleaders) but what it does well....it does really well.Essentially the angst of the main character, just wanting to fit in, be popular are pretty universal to most teenagers. I think everyone at times, feels like they are missing out on something, that the other crowd is having more fun than you. This gets played up to the extreme as Ronald Miller goes from being "totally geek, to totally chic" only to lose it all again in heartbreaking fashion.The fine acting of a young Patrick Dempsey, and the gone too soon Amanda Petterson really make the movie for me as the chemistry is real and the awesome scenes together make me smile everytime I watch (which is nearing 20 viewings now)Courtney Gains does an excellent job of being the neglected best friend who sees his friend descend into an unrecognizable jerk and the scenes involving their eventual loss of friendship are tough to watch.It is not perfect, it shows it age a bit but having just watched it recently...I still love it.

Loved this movie as a teen and my teen girls love it too! Timeless story. Everybody can relate to a character in this film at some point in their lives. The boy next door who thinks his neighbor is the girl of his dreams....it's happened to all of us. It's a timeless story of thinking you know what you want because of how it appears on the outside looking in. This is the fun story you get to watch unfold as an outsider buys his way in. You will root for him along the way. You'll fall in love with the characters on both sides as this movie shows you that not everything you think is reality and you won't ever really know what it's like in someone else's world until you walk in their shoes.

Ladies, you will love Patrick Dempsey transforming from a nerd to a very naughty bad boy. That was my only favorite scene, it's like he is showing off his true colors! I thought the rest was alright but there weren't that great enough scene's.I think there was a lot of whining going on too that would definitely put you off regarding girls grouping over Ronald and the fact, Cindy had kept pressuring him on pointless things like breaking up in public which was fake. I say they copied Grease or any other Greaser films just so Patrick Dempsey looked good in this which he did but Rom Com is definitely not for him to act in!

Patrick Dempsey, and Amanda Petersen, what an iconic '80s casting.Teen oriented movies that started with "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" paved the way for whole slew of movies of this kind which this one now has a "classic" status.Now, girls are wishing there's someone who would take them on a lawn mower ride. That's become a romantic thing now - wow !Pretty cool movie that's fun to watch even now.Just because the casts are teenagers doesn't mean that the movie is a light weight.It seems like a dumb movie, but it's too good of a romance to be taken lightly.Older actors would have done it differently, but this is just as good as any love story.