Can't Buy Me Love (film) an 80's icon

The year was 1987 and most of you weren't alive. I was, but was very young and I think this was the perfect film for me considering how old I was at the time. Not a boy, not yet a man :P

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The story is pretty simple and I thought it was rather creative as well as pretty true as far as high-school politics are concerned (can I presume that there is still a hierarchy in high schools?)

Basically a high-school nerd who is pretty much invisible to the popular kids at school lives next door to the most popular girl at school who is attractive and of course is a cheerleader. She has ruined her mom's favorite suede jacket at a party and doesn't have the money to replace it (stay with me, this sounds dumb so far.) Ronnie Miller is that nerd and he has been saving up money all summer to buy a telescope (this nerdy enough for you?) but instead decides to give the money to Cindy (the cheerleader neighbor) in exchange for her pretending to be his girlfriend for a month.

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The arrangement is innocent, don't get the wrong idea... she doesn't have to bang him or anything (movie is rated PG) but she does have to genuinely look out for him and convince others that their relationship is real. She can also not tell anyone that this is all fake.

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She helps him to dress cool, act cool, and get him invited to all the parties. Eventually he becomes extremely popular as a result. It should also be relatively obvious that Cindy starts to develop genuine feels for Ronnie over the course of the month as well.

That trailer is so awful but whatever, it was the 80's. I think a big part of the reason why I liked this movie so much was because Amanda Peterson was the subject of lot of teenage boys attention at the time. On a tragic (but not so unusual) side note, her career winded down and pretty much ended by the mid 90's and she died of a drug overdose in 2015.