Can't Buy Me Love

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Summary: Indecent Proposal
Review: Wow, hearing about this movie reminds me of wonderful memories back in the 80s when I was a teen. I couldn't resist not writing a review.

Let me put it this way, it's a teen story version of "Indecent Proposal". Of course the two movies are very different and "Can't Buy Me Love" is extremely innocent movie compared to "Indecent Proposal" but still there is a thin line that matches between them... the use of money to buy love!

Amanda Peterson was incredibly sexy in that movie... she was HOT!

Loved the story, loved the innocense, loved the music & of course the lovely Amanda Peterson!

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Summary: An 80's classic finally hits DVD...
Review: We all know the story, geeky Patrick Dempsy shmoozes his way to popularity stats w/ the help of next door beauty/fellow high schooler Amanda Peterson. Midway,Dempsey realizes the sacrifices he has to do to get there and the consequences to juggle with. The movie stars a very and i do mean VERY young lookin Seth Green of current "Austin Powers" fame. "Cant But My Love" is up there with the John Hughes movies u can just watch over, and over...(sigh...)

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Summary: Love '80s movies!
Review: I love this movie no matter what anyone says. This movie unlike many other teen flicks of that time actually had a moral to it. Don't change yourself just to become popular. The movie was both entertaining and delightful. Seth green was in it and he was so young! My favorite singer also choreagraphed in this movie Paula Abdul. I liked the Ronald Miller part because I just graduated from high school and I know how it feels to be left out. this is a good movie with a good moral to it. My suggestion is to see the movie once and then decide if you like it or not like it.

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Summary: Great movie -- but DON'T BUY the DVD...
Review: ...unless they add decent DVD extras. If we consumers stick together and avoid buying *bad* DVDs of great movies, maybe distributers will do the work that that is worthy of the movie, the medium, and the price. I would give the movie itself five stars for story, script, humor, message, and acting.

Enjoyable features: original aspect ratio, audio commentaries (by director, writers, actors), "making of"/other featurettes, interviews, deleted/extended/blooper scenes, cast & crew info, etc. Also, since DVD "Region 1" includes USA and Canada, each DVD should have both English and French audio and subtitle support. DVDs are expensive, but a versatile medium for movie lovers, so should not be just the bare-bones movie. (Otherwise, a Special Edition should come out at the same time the bare-bones version is released.)

A minor beef I have with Disney and Buena Vista is their excluding the original movie release year from the packaging, forcing movie lovers to have to look it up elsewhere. Every movie (DVD/VHS) should have the movie runtime and original release year on the packaging. (Similarly, music CDs should have track numbers, names, and durations on the back of the case, unless a multi-disk set where space doesn't permit -- but many apathetic producers leave off some or all of this information.)

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Summary: Don't forget
Review: Don't forget, of all the the actors/actresses in this movie the most famous one (currently) is Seth Green. He plays Ronald's little brother in Can't Buy Me Love. Did I also mention he has clearly has the best lines in the movie.

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Summary: Coming on DVD August 13, 2002
Review: Just letting everyone know an exact release date per Buena Vista Home Enertainment... looking forward to it!

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Summary: This film is one of the most underated films of all time
Review: I first saw this film when i was falling asleep with the telly on one late night - i could not turn it off, it was really good. Patrick Dempsy takes on his familiar geek role this time named Ronald Miller , a so called loser who is only known for mowing the lawns for locals. Anyway to cut a long story short he offers to pay the most popular girl in school played by the lovely Amanda Petterson, $1000 to pretend they are going out , this is a ploy to make him popular and it works. There are some good characters in this film, and there is a message at the end of the film that many people should take in.

They do not make films like this anymore- and i hope that touchstone get round to releasing this fine film on dvd, i would be the first to snap it up!!!

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Summary: Tha day I fell in love with Amanda Peterson
Review: Through the years, I've loved this film for many, many reasons (actors & characters, storyline, happy ending...) I think it's one of the best 80's comedies. All actors are really wonderful.
By the way, what happened to Amanda Peterson?

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Summary: I always liked this movie
Review: In "Can't Buy Me Love," Patrick Dempsey plays Ron, a high school nerd who Machiavellianly seizes a chance to become "popular." He happens to bump into Cindy Mancini, the captain of the girls' cheerleading squad, at a moment when she is desperate for a quick thousand dollars -- an amount of money which he has on him, because he was on his way to buy himself an awesome new telescope. He arranges with her to pretend that they are a couple, in public, in return for which he will bail her out of her predicament. They shake hands on the deal, and things start getting weird immediately.

This is really a pretty nice movie. Ron shows the magic of being a nerd -- he takes Cindy on a date to an old airplane graveyard, where he regales her with stories about the histories of the old planes. He knows the geography of the lunar surface as though it were the back of his hand, which is kind of a cool thing to be clued into. Basically, he really is a pretty interesting guy. HOWEVER... the more popular he becomes, (due to Cindy's charm rubbing off on him), the more of a scumbag he gets to be. He doesn't even seem to realize that Cindy actually falls in love with him for his real self, he's so caught up with trying to be someone he's not. If he had remained the Astro-nerd he really was, right from the beginning, he would have had a lot more self respect. In that case, of course, there would have been no movie, so maybe we're all lucky that he chose to temporarily alter his customary modus vivendi.

This movie has real heart. A lot of 80s movies were pretty fluffy, but this one actually makes you think. It sticks to your ribs, that's all I can tell you. This next part of my review might sound a little tangential, but if you see the movie you'll see that it's actually extremely relevant... "Can't Buy Me Love" makes you really think about a lot of things that happen in high school. That's why it's so powerful. I found myself preoccupied at some points with how little energy people in the high school portrayed expend thinking about science, or ideas, or foreign lands, or history, which at least in theory should be the whole point of school. Or, to put in another way -- Ron's smart, nerdy friends actually DO think about such things, but generally outside of the academic environment. The social pressures of the experience of being in school are so overwhelming for Ron, at times, that sometimes he can barely even THINK, let alone LEARN. Without his cerebral, escapist daydreams of the moon's geography (lunography?), it seems that his mind and spirit would have been crushed altogether. Ahhhh, institutionalized education. You've gotta love it -- NOT! Makes you think, I guess.

But back to the movie. "Can't Buy Me Love" has two overriding themes. First, "to thine own self be true." I, for one, was WELL into my twenties before the first time I let myself BE myself enough to go ahead and buy a telescope, rather than spending the money trying to impress someone. The younger you are when you start being yourself, the better off you'll be. Second, don't be such a heinous, evil fiend to the other people you are trapped in school with for four years. Even nerds have a lot to say, a lot to offer, etc. This is a really good movie, almost a fable in some ways. I recommend the living daylights out of it. Also -- if you like this movie, you might also enjoy "Lucas," or "Dazed and Confused." Two thumbs up.

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Summary: realistic high school experiences
Review: John Hughes may be the king of high school comedies, but this is the one he never made. It takes a very,very realistic look at what goes on in every high school,kids doing anything to gain popularity and the consequences that come with it, i saw this film when i was a sophmore in high school and i can say that it hit home in many ways, i remember kids like this, doing these things to one another, it takes a hard look at the pitfalls of popularity and those wanting it, for some reason Disney(the films distributor) likes to ignore this film, why i don't know? it honestly tells the truth about high school. I usually don't care for these kind of films,but this one still entertains me when it is on, at 30 i still like this film, but it is not currently available on VHS, so i don't own it, if released on DVD, i would more than likely get it. it doesn't glorify high school the way hughes' films do which i like,and its setting which takes place in Arizona( scottsdale, it looks like)is always nice to watch. A winner for sure and probably one of 1987's most overlooked films.