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List Price: $12.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 4571
Released: August 29, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A young tomboy, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), finds her feelings for her best friend, Keith (Eric Stoltz), run deeper than just friendship when he gets a date with the most popular girl in school, Amanda, (Lea Thompson). Unfortunately, the girl's old boyfriend, Hardy (Craig Scheffer), who is from the rich section of town, is unable to let go of her, and plans to get back at Keith.
Description of Some Kind of Wonderful (Special Collector's Edition):
After dominating the teen-movie genre for the bulk of the 1980s, writer-producer (and sometimes director) John Hughes proved that he had at least one good movie left in him before squandering his talent on lame comedies throughout the 1990s. Like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful treated its teenaged characters like real people with real feelings, hopes, fears, and desire. Mary Stuart Masterson gives a great performance as a tomboy drummer named Watts who's secretly in love with her best friend, Keith (Eric Stoltz), an aspiring artist who is oblivious to her affection because he's got a crush on Amanda (Lea Thompson), the popular high school beauty. Watts will even go so far as to chauffeur a date for Keith and Amanda, if only to prove--after a lot of patient, emotional anguish--that she's better for Keith than Amanda could ever be. The movie's drama comes from Keith's gradual realization that there's more to love than surface attraction, and Hughes gets extra mileage out of the romantic confusion by allowing Thompson's character to be more than a shallow campus cutie. All three of the leads are good fits in their roles, and this was one of the few teen films of the '80s to add genuine depth to its mainstream appeal. It's one of the few John Hughes movies to stand the test of time. --Jeff Shannon
Some Kind of Wonderful (Special Collector's Edition) Reviews:
Still Some Kind of Wonderful... 
2009-11-24 - John Hughes proves he still had the right stuff to make a superb movie about teenagers with 1987's "Some Kind of Wonderful". Eric Stolz stars as Keith, a sensitive artistic kid from the wrong side of the tracks, who works after school as an auto mechanic and who has a monumental crush on pretty and popular classmate Amanda (Lea Thompson). Mary Stuart Masterson is pitch perfect as tough tom boy Watts, Keith's best friend.
Keith decides to ask Amanda out, a daring act which cuts against the grain of his social standing, the advice of the horrified Watts, and the warning of Amanda's angry former boyfriend Hardy (Craig Sheffer). The rest of the movie is the gutsy Keith's preparation for his date with destiny (and Amanda). Watts helps out, if only to save the dreamy Keith from himself. Keith will also get an unexpected assist from a tough kid he befriends in detention.
Hughes and Director Howard Deutch have the sensitive touch to portray three-dimensional young people with real hopes and fears, without drowning the audience in schmaltz. The conclusion of the movie manages to be dramatic, insightful,and romantic all at the same time. "Some Kind of Wonderful" is still all that, and very highly recommended to fans of John Hughes' other movies, such as "The Breakfast Club".
SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
2009-11-22 - HAVE ALWAYS ENJOYED THIS MOVIE. GLAD TO HAVE IT SO THAT I CAN OCASSIONALLY WATCH IT
A Perfect Love Story
2009-09-22 - I first saw this film when I was 16 and still living in England. Mary Stuart Masterson is the perfect (georgeous) Tom Boy and Eric Stoltz is the perfect school freak. If you enjoy any of the Brat pack films i highly recommentd this film.
Just a fantastic story with a great cast and an ending that will have you wishing you were Eric! (If you are guy.....)
Buy this and enjoy for a long time to come.
I never received this product 
2009-09-04 - I guess I really couldn't give an accurate review of the product since I never received it. I've seen the movie before and I really liked it, so I was hoping to see it again.
Nice little movie 
2009-08-27 - Good cast. Good story. A nice little teen movie from the past but it was a little better than just a teen movie. Had a big crush back then on Mary Stuart Masterson and her character here and in 'At Close Range' with Shawn Penn. Eric Stolz was great in his role and so was pretty much the rest of the cast. I was rooting the whole time for Stolz and Mary Stuart Masterson to get together in the end.
Good little movie from the past.
