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Michael Swerdlick is known for Can't Buy Me Love (1987), Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003) and Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990).
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May 21, 2024 · In this exciting article, we delve into the world of cinema through the perspective of the talented director, Michael Swerdlick. Prepare to embark on a cinematic journey as we explore the...
- Yes, The Movie Was Named After The Beatles’ Song.
- The Original Title Was Boy Rents Girl.
- The Movie Almost Didn’T Get Made, Because of Prostitution.
- It Was Shot as An Indie Film.
- One of The Early Drafts of The Script Featured Some R-Rated material.
- They Purposely Cast An Unknown For Ronald.
- Seth Green Was in The Movie.
- The Studio Almost Removed Kenneth’s Famous Quote.
- Amanda Peterson Died in 2015.
- Paula Abdul Choreographed The African Anteater Ritual Dance.
The Beatles' song “Can’t Buy Me Love,” from the album A Hard’s Day Night, became a huge hit in 1964. By 1987, Michael Jackson owned the rights to the tune, so Disney reportedly had to pay The King of Pop $100,000 to use it in the movie. The title insinuates prostitution, but writer Paul McCartney disagrees. “I think you can put any interpretation y...
Michael Swerdlick’s script was originally called Boy Rents Girl, but director Steve Rash and the producers thought the title sounded “sexist.” “We found that a lot of people had an immediate resentment factor because of the implications of those words,” Rash said. “As it turns out, I don’t think there’s a sexist moment in the film, but the title Bo...
Swerdlick sold his script to TriStar Pictures and met with the studio executives for a first notes meeting. “I come into the first meeting and the six studio executives are sitting there,” Swerdlick told an audience at a 2011 reunion screening. “And there’s one woman sitting there, and she’s like, ‘Well, I don’t know why we bought this movie, becau...
During the reunion Q&A, Swerdlick explained that after TriStar dissolved the deal, the script landed in the hands of Apollo Pictures founder Jere Henshaw, who was interested in Swerdlick rewriting a motocross script for him. Swerdlick’s agent sent Henshaw Boy Rents Girlas a writing sample, and he loved it so much he financed the film. Once finished...
Rash told Movieholethat one of the drafts he read made it seem like the movie would be “an R-rated sexploitation movie, with gags like a football player ejaculating in a teenage girl’s hair.” He convinced the producers the story needed to return to a PG-13 plot catering to teen girls. Rash got with Swerdlick and rewrote the script. “I spent six wee...
Rash and Henshaw agreed that Ronald Miller needed to be someone who wasn’t already famous. “If Ronald Miller is a star when you meet him on his lawn mower, you’ll never believe he is a nerd, so you’ll never care when he’s not a nerd,” Rash told Moviehole. Even though Dempsey had starred in a Fast Times at Ridgemont High TV adaptation and a few othe...
Green was only 13 years old when he played Patrick Dempsey’s brother, Chuckie. Green looked so different that he’s surprised when people do recognize him. “I can’t believe how many people actually remember me from that movie, because it doesn’t even look like me,” he said.
As a Halloween prank, Ronald and two jocks throw a bag of dog poop at fellow nerd Kenneth Wurman’s (Courtney Gains) front door, causing Ronald and Kenneth’s already fractured friendship to end. Ronald confronts Kenneth at a video arcade, and after Ronald’s mea culpa, Wurman exclaims, “You sh*t on my house!” In an interview, Gains said the studio wa...
Post-Can’t Buy Me Love, Peterson acted in more films and TV spots but none of them resonated the way the teen film did. In 1994, she retired from acting and fell into drug and alcohol abuse. On July 3, 2015, just five days short of her 44th birthday, she died from an accidental morphine overdose. She was supposedly taking the drug to relieve pain f...
At a school dance, Ronald breaks out into a weird tribal dance which incites the students to follow along—but the dance worried Rash. “That fake cultural dance could so easily be perceived as racist or stupid,” he told Moviehole. “Either would have been fatal to the movie.” He hired then-choreographer Paula Abdul to create the dance in a culturally...
Michael Swerdlick is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Story, Co-Producer, and Associate Producer. Some of his work includes Can't Buy Me Love, Love Don't Co$t a Thing, When in Rome, The Challenge, Getting There, and Class Act.
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Michael Swerdlick. Credits (text only) Hide Writer (14 credits) 2012 Meet the in-Laws (TV Series) (2012) 2009 Confessions of a Teen Idol (TV Series) (original concept - 8 episodes) - Episode #1.8 (2009) ... (original concept) - Episode #1.7 (2009) ... (original concept) - Episode #1.6 (2009) ... (original concept)
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