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Summary: Essential Teen Angst
Review: Before teen angst was a household word, it was a movie. Great music, great scene. Good actors, good supporting cast. Drama, comedy. New wave before it was alternative. Skaters and jocks living and learning in the same neighborhood on the same planet in the same solar system. What could be more real?
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Summary: Solid John Hughes production
Review: Basically reversing the roles from Pretty In Pink, it's easy to see why so many people love this film. From the great soundtrack to the solid characterizations, there really aren't any weak moments. Particularly good is Elias Koteas as Duncan, and Mary Stewart Masterson as Watts--luminous in a tomboy role.
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Summary: Classic 80's Flick!
Review: This is one of the best films in the 80's. Just a real feel good, fun flick! Anyone who attended High School in the 80's can appreciate it and will have High School flashbacks of their first loves!
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Summary: I love best friends falling in love with each other!!
Review: If you believe that best friends can become couples then you will adore and love this movie. Mary Stuart Masterson is great in this movie and Eric Stoltz perfectly plays the clueless object of her affection! It is a great movie!!
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Summary: This movie was a very real to life high school love story.
Review: This movie was a very real to life high school love story, see it or buy it if you can.
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Summary: Three great actors for the price of one.
Review: How can you lose? You've got Stoltz, Masterson and Thompson, all before they became big stars. The teen angst is genuine, the characters a little too cute, but the ending just what every heartsick high-schooler could want. Masterson serves every tomboy/unappreciated best friend just right.
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Summary: Some kind of predictable
Review: The saving grace to SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL are the performances by the three lead actors: Eric Stolz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Lea Thompson, especially Masterson. There isn't much in this script that hasn't been done before, and yet these three very young performers really pulled something out of it. Otherwise, this is another typical Hughes film filled with teenagers who are vain and self-important until something that SEEMS significant enters their lives. I know I'm in the minority here, and I'm probably just too old, but I would feel so insulted if I were a teenager watching any of Hughes' films. (Go ahead, let me have all your "Not Helpful" votes)
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Summary: Right in there with Sixteen Candles and the Breakfast Club !
Review: A definite teen classic. Before teen movies became lustful sexfests like "American Pie," Generation X-ers had a handful of teen epics that could be related to. It's definitely a feel-good movie and the acting is wonderful. As cheesy as some scenes might be, the overall effect overcomes the cheese-meter.An introspective artist, a pretty rich girl and a smart-mouthed tom-boy look for love in all the wrong places until the end. Petty people become deep, true loves find one another... not exactly reality, but a great flick none-the-less. Perhaps it's nostalgia that puts this film in my personal 5-star category, but when I watch it as a full-fledged adult, I'm not looking back and thinking, "boy was this flick stupid... I can't believe I liked it." Instead, I feel like I'm seeing it again for the first time. It's easy to get emotionally involved with these teens whose parents don't quite get the idea (as hard as some of them might try) of what's going on in their kids' lives. Reminiscent of "Pretty in Pink", all things work out in the end. This film didn't do as well in theaters as it could have because of the unconventional (read: weird) trailers that advertised the film. You just see bluejeans and a drummer hitting drums... I basically saw this film only because Eric Stoltz was in it... but I ended up adoring the film in spite of the cheesy trailer that promised nothing of substance. Gen-Y folks might find this a bit too bubble-gum, but if you're in your early 30s to late 20s and you haven't seen this film, it's your duty to see it. :-) If you're a bit younger, give it a try. It may not be as "sophisticated" as films seem to be today, but it was right on target when it was released. For parents, this film is safe to show to young teens. There is no nudity or sexual inuendo. There is a kissing scene that might cause you to have to fan yourself, but it's a kiss and not heavy petting or anything. There is language, but not above or beyond what can be heard on "NYPD Blue." The film shows the values in true friendships, self-sacrifice, and true love based on sacrifice - not on sex, beauty or money. Relationships between parents and their children and between siblings is also explored in the film. Because of this, it actually has an underlying moral theme that is so lacking in films targeted to teens today.
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Summary: Wonderful 80's Film
Review: 1987's Some Kind Of Wonderful is a gender-revised version of 1986's Pretty In Pink. Eric Stoltz takes the place of Molly Ringwald and Lea Thompson & Mary Stuart Masterson do the same for Andrew McCarthy & Jon Cryer. Mr. Stoltz plays Keith a loner, artistic type who works at a garage and whose best friend is a tom girl, drummer Watts played by Ms. Masterson. Keith pines after Amanda Jones (Ms. Thompson), one of the most popular girls in school. Amanda dates the spoiled rich boy Hardy Jenns (Craig Sheffer) and after they fight, Keith swoops in and asks Amanda for a date, to which she agrees. Keith finds out that the whole date is just a setup to get him to Jenns' house so he can beat him up, he still continues with the date. He sets an elaborate evening, dinner at a fancy restaurant, art museum after hours and a set of diamond earrings. It turns out that Amanda isn't some spoiled rich girl, but a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who sold herself out for popularity. All the while, Watts is secretly in love with Keith and in the end after a showdown at Jenns' house where he is exposed as a chicken and fraud, Keith realizes his true feelings for Watts and they kiss. The movie is filled with nice performances by the three leads, but it is the supporting players that give the best performances. John Ashton is perfectly gruff and pushing as Keith's dad, Maddie Corman is the classic, annoying younger sister, but Elias Koteas steals the show as Duncan, the school thug who befriends Keith. Mr. Koteas throws out some classic lines. This was the last film John Hughes would write or director in the classic 80's teen angst vein. The soundtrack to the film is excellent, featuring no name bands like Flesh For Lulu, The Licking Tins and Furniture and it captures the essence of the films.
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Summary: SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
Review: Back in 1987,my daughter had seen this movie..& advise me to see it.Well..I wasn't really in "teen" movies..so I went to see it.I loved it.The music in the opening just put you right for the coming story.Producer,John Hughes(from Michigan)was great.
But when the beauitful Mary Stuart Masterson came on the scene..it was nothing short of PURE Lovlyness.From that moment on...she had my heart locked up..& still does.Eric Stoltz was great taking out Lea Thompson..only to really fall for Ms.Masterson.I wish movies could come back again this way.
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