Even after multiple viewings, it still gets me. Yeah, that’s right… and it also left me with a big silly grin on my face. Some Kind of Wonderful is a good drama as well as a great comedy and never gets mushy even though the ending left me a little misty-eyed. She has also volunteered to chauffeur the couple on their date and it’s heartbreaking to see her frustration and pain when seeing the two enjoying themselves. She volunteers to “train” him and that first kiss is absolutely electrifying. At first he’s all sure of himself, but gets insecure when Watts pushes him. In one scene she asks him if he thinks he’s ready for the date and if he thinks he can deliver the kiss that kills if asked to. Which he does, in the end… with the help of Duncan and his friends. He needs to take a stand against the “upper class” so to speak. Even after he finds out that the reason the scorned former boyfriend, Hardy Jenns, has asked them to come to a party that evening, is to beat him up, he still wants to go through with it. He wants to go on this date to prove to himself that he’s as good as everyone else. Keith on the other hand says that the college-dream was never his in the first place. He argues that Keith should go to college so he wouldn’t have to work at a gas-station all his life. This does NOT please his father, played by John Ashton from Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 and Midnight Run, and they have a huge fight. The big night is approaching and Keith gets everything ready and pulls his hard-earned college-money from the bank to pay for it all. He was also in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Pulp Fiction and The Prophecy. Keith is played by the talented Eric Stoltz who did a fantastic job in Mask alongside Cher and Sam Elliott. Koteas has had roles in such diverse movies as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Prophecy and Tucker: The Man and his Dream to name a few.
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Hardy Jenns looking mighty full of himself.Įlias Koteas is hilarious in this role and has some really funny moments. They sometimes sneak of the school grounds to… well… hmm, how do I put this delicately? To bump ugly… do the horizontal mambo… to have sex, dammit! Her boyfriend is rich-boy/dirt-bag Hardy Jenns, played perfectly by Craig Sheffer ( Night Breed, A River Runs Through It). He’s interested in the beautiful Amanda Jones who unfortunately hangs with the popular crowd. These things don’t really make him very popular in school.
His best friend is a tomboy named Watts who plays the drums. Keith Nelson is a shy middle-class kid who likes art and works at a gas-station in his spare time and is kind of an outsider. The 80’s seemed to be a great decade for teen comedies, wouldn’t you agree?
The director is Howard Deutch who also directed the aforementioned Pretty in Pink and also The Great Outdoors. This is one of the best to spring from John Hughes’ wonderful mind and he wrote some fantastic movies like for instance Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I know every line and love all the characters in it.
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Every time I couldn’t decide on what movie to watch or if I just wanted something familiar to relax with, this was my choice. It’s confession-time again! Some Kind of Wonderful is one of those movies that I have seen more times than I can remember and yet I never tire of it.