Overview
A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school.
If I didn’t know better, I would have thought that this was one of John Hugh’s early works. I get that it is an 80’s teen movie and that the “teens” look like they are 30 (because they are) and talk like they are 40. That is expected. The movie was just so disjointed. It was like he took the script for Sixteen Candles and just shuffled around some of the characters. Unfortunately Mary Stuart Masterson is no Molly Ringwald, but then again she had so very little to work with (all she did was pout and cry during the second half of the movie). And the ending… we were supposed to believe that the dramatic finish was earned?
IHATEBadMovies.com reviews Some Kind of Wonderful
Movie title: Some Kind of Wonderful
Movie description: A young tomboy, Watts, finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith, run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school.
Date published: 2023-04-24
Director(s): Howard Deutch
Actor(s): Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Chynna Phillips, Craig Sheffer, John Ashton, Elias Koteas, Maddie Corman, Molly Hagan, Bryan Scott, Ike Eisenmann, Candace Cameron Bure, Lee Garlington, Kenneth Kimmins, Patricia Gaul, Laura Leigh Hughes, Carmine Caridi, Jane Elliott
Genre: Drama, Romance
My Review
If I didn’t know better, I would have thought that this was one of John Hugh’s early works. I get that it is an 80’s teen movie and that the “teens” look like they are 30 (because they are) and talk like they are 40. That is expected. The movie was just so disjointed. It was like he took the script for Sixteen Candles and just shuffled around some of the characters. Unfortunately Mary Stuart Masterson is no Molly Ringwald, but then again she had so very little to work with (all she did was pout and cry during the second half of the movie). And the ending… we were supposed to believe that the dramatic finish was earned?
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My Review - 5/10
5/10