Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Theatrical Release: 02/27/1987(USA)
Release Date: 08/05/2008
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD2/DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
In a gender-reversed version of his previous hit
Pretty in Pink,
John Hughes retreads all-too- familiar ground in
Some Kind of Wonderful, the story of a sensitive, young would-be artist,
Keith (
Eric Stoltz), who vies for the affection of his high school's popularity queen,
Amanda (
Lea Thompson), seemingly out of some deep-rooted insecurity regarding his social ineptitude. He enlists the help of his butch best friend and fellow misfit,
Watts (
Mary Stuart Masterson), unaware that she secretly pines for him. While she goads him to give up his pointless pursuit of
Amanda, he encounters one other small obstacle --
Amanda's rich bully of a boyfriend,
Hardy (
Craig Sheffer), who threatens
Keith with a face rearrangement. Undeterred,
Keith decides he will, by any means necessary, escort his dream girl to the prom -- but not before he buys her expensive jewelry with the money from his college fund in order to impress her. (
Hughes expects the audience to side with
Keith when his father protests.)
Some Kind of Wonderful is pure
fantasy, but the plot is too tired and flawed for it to be completely satisfactory escapism. Still, the performances are all-around good and the ending is slightly more likeable than its predecessor's.
Hughes decided to use the original
Pretty in Pink ending, which had been dropped from the original after poor audience response at the advance screenings.
~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide
;)
