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Can't Buy Me Love (1987) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The brand of beer held by Ronald and Iris at the New Year's Eve party.
  
  
• Continuity: The license plate on Cindy Mancini's car disappears and reappears.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: Striking crew members are visible with picket signs at cheerleader practice.
  
  

• Continuity: The direction of shadows cast by the girls at cheerleader practice changes radically.
  
  
• Continuity: When Cindy goes to get on the lawnmower with Ronald, she is wearing silver bracelets on her left arm. After she is sitting behind him, the bracelets are on her right arm.
  
  
• Continuity: Fran's position after Quint throws the wine on Cindy.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: At the end of the movie, Cindy's last word is "definitely", however her mouth isn't moving when she says this.
  
  
• Miscellaneous: When Cindy, Patti and Barbara are in the car, there is no rear-view mirror.
  
  
• Continuity: After receiving the envelope with money from Cindy, and Cindy is gone with her friends, Ronald rides away and the shadows are suddenly different.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In the scene where Cindy, Fran and Barbara are watching Bobby on the TV in his football outfit, they finished watching it. Then Cindy says "Bobby's got a lot on his mind right? Football and everything?" Barbara is near the TV after turning it off. She says to Cindy after Cindy's question, "Yeah". In the reflection of the TV, the crew is clearly visible.
  
  
• Factual errors: In reality there's no way that the kids could have climbed the wall to get into the airplane graveyard. It is located on Davis Monthan Air Force Base and is under constant surveillance. You cannot even stop your car on the side of that stretch of road without military personnel showing up. There also are no dumpsters anywhere near that part of the road. That scene was actually filmed elsewhere in Tucson rather than near the boneyard.
  
  
• Continuity: In the opening sequence, Ronald is wearing white socks, then black socks, then white again. When he gets to school, he is wearing black socks.
  
  
• Continuity: In the scene where Ronald offers Cindy the money at the mall, Ronald is wearing dark clothes and a hat. When the telescope salesman looks through the telescope to watch this same action from the other side of the mall, Ronald is seen wearing light clothes and no hat.
  
  
• Continuity: During the "breakup scene", Ronnie's collar is buttoned to the top and then it is open. It flips a few times throughout the scene
  
  
• Continuity: When Ronald and Kenneth are carrying books down the hall, then Kenneth opens the classroom door, he has a purple book on top of his pile, on the next shot from inside the classroom, he has an orange book on top.
  
  

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