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Can't Buy Me Love
1987 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Steve Rash
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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Fun tidbit about the boneyard in Tucson, the 80's movie "Can't Buy Me Love" was set here and at one point the high school kids sneak into the boneyard to check out the planes up close. I think they used a dumpster to help climb over a brick wall to get in, but there was no such location! At the time it was surrounded only by tall chain link fences, but they wanted to make it look easier for the characters.