| Some Kind of WonderfulReleased: February 27, 1987 Studio: Paramount Pictures Genre: teen Box Office (numbers in millions):Domestic: 18.55 Worldwide: -- Adjusted for Inflation:Domestic: 39.70 Worldwide: -- |
Directing: Howard Deutch Screenwriting: John Hughes Starring: Eric Stolz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson Review:Critic Roger Ebert said, “Most movies are not about people. Most movies are about things…Hardly ever do we get an American movie about adults who are attempting to know themselves better, live better lives, get along more happily with the people around them.” RE John Hughes’ movies “are almost always about the problems of growing up and becoming a more complete person. Some Kind of Wonderful…is a movie like that.” RE He went on to say that “Hughes always gives his characters the right to be real” and that this movie “is not about whether the hero will get the girl. It is about whether the hero should get the girl.” RE The hero in question is Keith (Stolz), “a pleasantly shaggy young man who is an outsider at his high school. He would rather be an artist than fit in with the crowd.” RE His object of affection is Amanda Jones (Thompson), a popular girl who’s dating one of the school’s rich pretty boys. However, Keith’s best friend, Watts (Masterson) is secretly pining for Keith, hiding behind her tough-as-nails tomboy persona. Ebert offered her performance praise, saying “There’s something a little masochistic about the way she volunteers to chauffeur him on his big date, but something sweet, too, in the way she cares for him. She has a lot of tricky scenes in which she has to look one way and feel another way, and she’s good at them.” RE Ebert says Some Kind of Wonderful “is yet another film in which Hughes and his team show a special ability to make an entertaining movie about teenagers, which is also about life, about insecurity, about rejection, about learning to grow. I sometimes have the peculiar feeling that the kids in Hughes’s movies are more grown up than the adults in most of the other ones.” RE Sources:
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 3.711 out of 5.00 (average of 13 ratings)
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