Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

mgoodwin1989 Not sure why people think this is so good. There are 100 80s movies that are better than this.

jamariana I get it, lots of people love this movie because it is an '80s classic. Why? I don't understand. Patrick Dempsey's character in this movie is a wimpy, DISRESPECTFUL, and sexist male lead. He thinks he can't get girls because he's a geeky, weak-looking specimen of the male sex. Maybe. Girls his age are just as shallow as he is. But he's no great catch either. He pays a girl to pretend to be his girlfriend because that's all women are to him: property. Something to buy, something to flaunt like a gem or other worldly possession capable of being bought. If he'd just treat people with respect, maybe they'd like him a bit more, but probably not. I went to an American high school myself and understand that some things are just about social ranking. I was a science-loving film-geek, but I just so happened to letter in varsity swimming and track-and-field, so while I shouldn't have been popular, my "jock" status allowed me fame and kind treatment.Sorry to digress, but, if anything has been clear from what I've been attempting to write, I didn't like the movie. All I could think about the entire time was how such a character and such a storyline hardly deserved to be given the amount of time and effort required to make this feature film. I would not recommend this to anyone. Whatever love story this film claims to have, it is not a great one. It's a toxic relationship if it lasts. Poor Amanda Peterson for this to be one of the "top" works she'll be remembered for.

shaniwebb 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.

goatboy123 Did you ever want to buy your way into the cool crowd? Yeah, unless you were already in it we all thought about it at one point or another but in the movie I'm reviewing this time, Can't Buy me Love, Ronny Miller played by Patrick Dempsey actually got a chance to. In this movie which I stumbled upon one early Saturday morning while watching HBO as a kid, Ronny Miller saves up one-thousand dollars for a telescope that he earns from mowing lawns. When he goes to buy the telescope he notices Cindy Mancini, played by Amanda Peterson, who of course is the most popular girl in school in need of some help. She tells him that she ruined her mothers dress and that she has no way of replacing it. Ronny decides to buy her a new one in exchange for a date that he hopes will make him popular.I didn't know why I loved this movie as a kid so much. There was no slapstick comedy,no crazy characters or even any action but maybe when I look back that's what I loved about it so much.It just felt real. It felt like typical high school even though I didn't truly know what that was since I was only ten. My favorite part of the movie was that they cast a young Seth Green as the role of Ronnys little brother.For this movie I'll give it four Seth greens out of five only for the fact that every time this movie is on no matter what part it's at I'll have to sit and watch it to the end.