Can't Buy Me Love

A nerdy outcast (Patrick Dempsey) secretly pays the most popular girl in school (Amanda Peterson) one thousand dollars to be his girlfriend. At the time this film was made, I do not think anyone involved was terribly well-known. Seth Green was obviously too young to get noticed. Patrick Dempsey had more than ten years to go. And Courtney Gains, though a popular guy in horror circles, has never really made it big. Amanda Peterson is a mystery... she seems to have just stopped. The plot is fun and a bit predictable, but the predictable parts are what make it fun. Is this really how popularity works? I do not think so, but what do I know? I never understood it in high school and now twenty years later I still have not figured it out.