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Some Kind Of Wonderful Details

1987 Certificate 12
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Keith (Eric Stoltz) is finishing up with high school. A sensitive loner, he prefers to work on his art over going to sporting events and hanging with the cool crowd. Instead, he platonically whiles away the hours with Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), the pixieish drummer girl he's known since grade school. But Keith does have one .. Read more

Starring Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Craig Sheffer
Director Howard Deutch
Genres Drama

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Some Kind Of Wonderful

Keith (Eric Stoltz) is finishing up with high school. A sensitive loner, he prefers to work on his art over going to sporting events and hanging with the cool crowd. Instead, he platonically whiles away the hours with Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), the pixieish drummer girl he's known since grade school. But Keith does have one popular obsession: Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), the most desired girl in school-- and girl friend of obnoxious rich guy Hardy Jens (Craig Scheffer). When Hardy and Amanda part ways, Keith finally has his chance---and true blue Watts will do all that she can, even it that means biting her tongue and suppressing her true feelings for her longtime friend.
John Hughes's follow-up to the classic PRETTY IN PINK takes essentially the same story and flips the gender roles. Once again, a positive "follow-your-heart" moral and another great soundtrack (featuring The Jesus & Mary Chain, Flesh For Lulu, The March Violets) set the scene.

Starring Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Mary Stuart Masterson, Craig Sheffer, Elias Koteas
Director Howard Deutch
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Drama
Language DVD: English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 04 Nov 2002
Production year: 1987
Format DVD

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  • 4 stars out of 5

    Producer and writer John Hughes effectively remade Pretty in Pink here (even hiring the same director, Howard Deutch), only pausing to swap Molly Ringwald with Eric Stoltz in the role of the teen who can't choose between the neighbourhood beauty and the less glamorous (but infinitely nicer) best friend as his love interest. This is gentler and more subtle than Pretty in Pink, with Back to the Future's Lea Thompson in one of her best roles as the spoilt girl that garage attendant Stoltz falls for, and Mary Stuart Masterson delightful as the tomboy who secretly harbours deeper feelings for her male friend. Stoltz makes an effective leading man, giving a touching performance in what is a genuinely charming film.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Teen romance pandering to its target audience: all adults are stupid and repressive, and maturity and wisdom are to be found among the young. Its appeal will be limited to the immature.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 12 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Brilliant!

    This has been my favourite film ever for donkey's years-I can even recite pretty much every word (though no-one will care!).

    It's a pretty hard film to find to be honest, and the people who have watched this had probably never heard of it before. It surprises me that the people who have heard of this film are harder to find than Mr Bin Laden!

    The fact is though, as I write this, not one person who has watched this film has rated it under "4 out of 7". I reckon this is a pretty good sign to anybody that the film is fine!

    It hasn't aged, as the story is ageless.

    Everyone can relate to the story and its so simple (the simplicity makes this film even better). The music is fine (especially the introduction-which, in itself, indroduces the characters in a very original way). The end version of "Can't help falling in love with you" is superb with a toe-tapping Irish flavour (yes, you'll even enjoy the credits!).

    I couldn't rate "Some Kind Of Wonderful" anything but 7 stars-a film first watched in my teens still hits all the right notes for me-and I'm 30 now!

    Excellent-if not underated-"teen" film!

      • gnasher18us from Lancashire
      • Posted 08 Nov 2004 12:29

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    Brilliant

    This is a brilliant teenage love story...An excellent story, very well acted. The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Sixteen Candles, all movies by John Hughes about teenagers, Some Kind Of Wonderful was the other teenage film he made that it seems no one has heard of. It's as good as the others and if you liked the others rent this. The lead male character is hopelessly in love with this girl, she doesn't know he exists, his female best friend is hopelessy in love with him and he doesn't know, great stuff...

      • A customer from Luton, England.
      • Posted 15 Aug 2004 13:36

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