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.

Realrockerhalloween Ronald Miller pines for Cindy the most popular girl in school who doesn't know he's alive. That all changes when she borrows her mom's blouse and accidentally ruins it at a house party now she must replace it before she finds out. Ronald offers to buy her a new one in exchange for becoming his girlfriend for a month.Ronald gains new found popularity among the jocks and cheerleaders who thinks he's a stud. He ditches his old friends for the highlight.The movie not only explores themes like popularity and love in simple terms like other teen flicks. Popularity is shown like a class system. The top percent get the nice tables, women and parties. The bottom are picked on, forced to sit at certain locations and can't even communicate with someone out of their league. Bullying is a took to install fear and keep the herd in line.Cindy and Ronald are kinda like other famous tragic couples. They are forced apart by their peers and expect to act a certain way if they want to keep their status. It's almost like a fairy tale and they end happily ever after when they realize it's all nonsense.Unlike Romeo and Juliet these two get to ride off in the sunset and plan on attending prom. A match made in heaven. Ronald even ends up winning over his old friends and respect of his peers.Bring out the hankie. You won't be able to keep your eyes dry.

Uriah43 "Cindy Mancini" (Amanda Peterson) is the head of the cheerleading squad and the most popular person in high school. "Ronald Miller" (Patrick Dempsey) is the head nerd and essentially avoided by everyone except his fellow geeks. One day in the local shopping mall he happens to observe Cindy in some emotional distress and goes over to see what is wrong. He then learns that one of the jocks at the school accidentally spilled red wine on a very valuable suede jacket she took from her mother's closet and she desperately needs $1000 dollars to replace it. Since she needs the money and he wants to feel what it's like to be popular in school he offers her the money he has saved mowing lawns in exchange for her being his girlfriend in public for a month. Unfortunately for them, neither of them realize the ramifications. Now, as far as this movie is concerned I will just say that that this is one of the better 80's teen comedies produced with both Amanda Peterson and Patrick Dempsey performing in an exceptional manner. One particular scene involving the "African Anteater Dance" was especially hilarious. In any case, I highly recommend this movie for those interested in a film of this type and rate it as above average.

groktalo The movie has a typical romantic plot within an American high-school setting, with lead characters being a nerd (Ronald) and the head cheerleader (Cindy). She and her friends would not even acknowledge him when passing by whereas he is desperately infatuated her. Ronald figures that he needs to become popular in order to be noticed by girls and offers Cindy a thousand dollars to pretend in public that they are going out, hoping that it would boost his popularity. She accepts the offer and throws in his makeover at no extra cost. The rest of the storyline is fairly predictable. However, there are two issues that this movie addresses probably more successfully than most of the other teen chick flicks: leadership and forgiveness.The rest may contain some spoilers.Ronald aspires not only to acceptance by his peers, but also to becoming their informal leader. The path that he initially takes in order to achieve that status is typical of a high-school environment, as he chooses exclusivity over social cohesion, egoism over altruism, herd mentality over individuality and conceit over humility. Eventually, he realises that sustainable informal leadership is based on selfless acts and promoting social inclusion.Whilst at the peak of his ill-gotten popularity, Ronald does not forgive Cindy the fact that she used to ignore him when he was just one of the geeks. In fact, he cruelly rejects her even though she has developed warm feelings for him and has extended him support and trust that are well in excess of what is stipulated in their arrangement. However, once his popularity has vanished and he is left with no friends, he expects Cindy and his former best friend to immediately take him back and forgive all the gross insults he has inflicted upon them. Having failed that, Ronald finally realises that he needs to deserve to be forgiven.