9 Movies Starring Patrick Dempsey

Can't Buy Me Love

Can't Buy Me Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1987-08-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (21537 Reviews)

Director:

Steve Rash

Fullplot:

Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the "cool" clique. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher than he expected.

Some Girls

Some Girls

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-09-09

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(2050 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Hoffman

Fullplot:

Michael, a college student, visits his girlfriend Gabriella and her family for Christmas in Canada. When he gets there, she tells him that she doesn't love him any more. Meanwhile, her family is exceedingly strange: her father is a writer who spends most of his time wandering the house nude. Her grandmother mistakes Michael for her dead husband. Her two sisters express interest in him. Granny escapes the hospital and heads back to her home in the woods, and the family chases after her, and Michael is kept reeling.

With Honors

With Honors

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-04-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (10565 Reviews)

Director:

Alek Keshishian

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

Monty is a student, and when his computer crashes, he's left with only a single paper copy of his thesis. Frightened of losing it, he immediately rushes out to photocopy it, only to stumble and drop it down a grate. Searching the basement of the building, he discovers that it has been found by Simon, a squatter. Simon makes a deal with Monty: for every day's accomodation and food that Monty gives him, he will give a page of the thesis in return.

Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2002-09-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (77830 Reviews)

Director:

Andy Tennant

Cast:

Writer:

Douglas J. Eboch (story)

C. Jay Cox (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Melanie Carmichael, an up and rising fashion designer in New York, has gotten almost everything she wished for since she was little. She has a great career and the JFK-like fiancèe of New York City. But when he proposes to her, she doesn't forget about her family back down South. More importantly, her husband back there, who refuses to divorce her ever since she sent divorce papers seven years ago. To set matters straight, she decides to go to the south quick and make him sign the papers. When things don't turn out the way she planned them, she realizes that what she had before in the south was far more perfect than the life she had in New York City.

Enchanted

Enchanted

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-21

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (131490 Reviews)

Director:

Kevin Lima

Fullplot:

The beautiful princess Giselle is banished by an evil queen from her magical, musical animated land and finds herself in the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on a "happily ever after" basis, Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall in love with a charmingly flawed divorce lawyer who has come to her aid - even though she is already promised to a perfect fairy tale prince back home - she has to wonder: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world?

Freedom Writers

Freedom Writers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-01-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

Germany, USA

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (47874 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Richard LaGravenese (screenplay)

Freedom Writers (book)

Erin Gruwell (book)

Fullplot:

It's 1994 in Long Beach, California. Idealistic Erin Gruwell is just starting her first teaching job, that as freshman and sophomore English teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School, which, two years earlier, implemented a voluntary integration program. For many of the existing teachers, the integration has ruined the school, whose previously stellar academic standing has been replaced with many students who will be lucky to graduate or even be literate. Despite choosing the school on purpose because of its integration program, Erin is unprepared for the nature of her classroom, whose students live by generations of strict moral codes of protecting their own at all cost. Many are in gangs and almost all know somebody that has been killed by gang violence. The Latinos hate the Cambodians who hate the blacks and so on. The only person the students hate more is Ms. Gruwell. It isn't until Erin holds an unsanctioned discussion about a recent drive-by shooting death that she fully begins to understand what she's up against. And it isn't until she provides an assignment of writing a daily journal - which will be not graded, and will remain unread by her unless they so choose - that the students begin to open up to her. As Erin tries harder and harder to have resources provided to teach properly (which often results in her needing to pay for them herself through working second and third jobs), she seems to face greater resistance, especially from her colleagues, such as Margaret Campbell, her section head, who lives by regulations and sees such resources as a waste, and Brian Gelford, who will protect his "priviledged" position of teaching the senior honors classes at all cost. Erin also finds that her teaching job is placing a strain on her marriage to Scott Casey, a man who seems to have lost his own idealistic way in life.

Brother Bear 2

Brother Bear 2

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-08-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

74 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (6887 Reviews)

Director:

Ben Gluck

Cast:

Writer:

Rich Burns (screenplay)

Ben Gluck (additional screenplay)

Fullplot:

Kenai, still a bear and Koda strongly believe that they do not need any girl, just each other. Kenai dreams of Nita, a girl he had met and saved when he was very young. After giving her an amulet, and promising they'd be friends forever, Nita leaves for her home and Kenai never sees her again. We then see Nita, now grown up, beautiful and preparing her her wedding. However, the ancestors are not pleased, as Nita is already tied to Kenai. The only way for Nita to break their bond and be happily married is to journey to the very place where Kenai gave her the amulet and burn it together. As Kenai, Nita and Koda journey to the place together, Koda cannot help but feel worried that Kenai might abandon him altogether for Nita. Will Nita break the bond she shares with Kenai and marry another? Will Koda be abandoned by his big brother?

Made of Honor

Made of Honor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-05-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

101 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (50358 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Weiland

Cast:

Writer:

Adam Sztykiel (screenplay)

Deborah Kaplan (screenplay)

Harry Elfont (screenplay)

Adam Sztykiel (story)

Fullplot:

Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

Ushi Must Marry

Ushi Must Marry

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-02-14

Languages:

Dutch, English

Countries:

Netherlands

IMDB Ratings:

(419 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Ruven

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Marian Batavier

Paul Ruven

Fullplot:

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