Some Kind of Wonderful

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February 20th, 1987

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Comedy, Drama

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Romance

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Keith and Watts have been friends for years, and Keith has spent those years dreaming about having a shot with Amanda, the most popular girl in school. He finally gets his shot after she breaks up...

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Directed: Howard Deutch Written: John Hughes
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lea Thompson, Craig Sheffer, John Ashton

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Some Kind of Wonderful has the same "chick flick" as many other movies of its kind. A guy falls in love with a good looking girl and leaves his best friend (a female) behind.

This movie focuses on the lives of kids from a...
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Critics Score Card

[+] Variety

80

A simple, lovely and thoughtful teenage story that occasionally shines due to fine characterizations and lucid dialog.
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[+] The New York Times

80

It has a light touch, a disarming cast, a well-developed sense of humor and a lot of charm. [27 Feb 1987, p.C17]
by Janet Maslin | Read Full Review »
[+] Rolling Stone

75

A hand-me-down cast? Far from it. Masterson and Stoltz possess talent and charm to spare... Wonderful aspires to be little more than the hot-and- happening teen flick of the moment. At that it succeeds.
by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
[+] San Francisco Chronicle

75

This is kid stuff, but such well acted, well made stuff that inside 15 minutes you're sitting there like a teenager yourself wondering which girl Keith will wind up with. [27 Feb 1987]
by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

75

It is not about whether the hero will get the girl. It is about whether the hero should get the girl, and when was the last time you saw a movie that even knew that could be the question?
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

60

Stoltz turns in a restrained, realistic performance, and Thompson is quite good in what could easily have become a thankless role. But far and away, this is Masterson's film. An amazingly mature young actress, Masterson skillfully brings subtlety, depth, and nuance to her character.
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[+] Washington Post

60

It's Masterson who dominates Some Kind of Wonderful. Like her energy, Masterson's beauty is kinetic, internalized, and she's a winner even if the film itself runs third in the Hughes opus on teenhood.
by Richard Harrington | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

60

Mary Stuart Masterson, a delicate blond, steals the show as the sensitive gal under the tomboy's leather jacket, her natural magnetism offsetting the story's predictability.
by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Tribune

50

It's Mary Stuart Masterson, bringing a depth and tenacity to her role that nowhere appears in the screenplay, who leaves the lasting impression. She escapes the airiness of Hughes's vision to establish something like a human being. [22 Feb 1987]
by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
[+] Time

50

Thin, gulpy, awkward, it stands before us, artlessly begging sympathy but betraying its creator's worst weakness. [9 Mar 1987, p.86]
by Richard Schickel | Read Full Review »
[+] Newsweek

50

Hughes is just treading lukewarm water. Stotz is the blandest of his teen heroes yet. [16 Mar 1987]
by David Ansen | Read Full Review »
[+] Los Angeles Times

50

Did you miss "Pretty in Pink," with the glowing Molly Ringwald? No problem. Some Kind of Wonderful, which has the same director -- Howard Deutch -- also has the same story... The real complaint, however, is that Hughes has absolutely nothing new to report -- no fresh perspectives, no gratefully received maturity, nothing added or depleted. [27 Feb 1987]
by Sheila Benson | Read Full Review »
[+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

50

Yet the performances are just sturdy boats against the narrative current - the plot is altogether too calculated and wholly without surprises, either pleasant or unpleasant... The painting is just fine; too bad the numbers show through.
by Rick Groen | Read Full Review »
[+] Wall Street Journal

40

It's just that the picture doesn't have a strong idea behind it, just a fog of many half-expressed ideas. [26 Feb 1987, p.20(E)]
by Julie Salamon | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Reader

40

Everything comes easy here, especially the right to narcissist complacency, but Hughes/Deutch are too busy playing Mr. Goodvibes to worry about the contradictions at the heart of their shallow moral vision.
by Pat Graham | Read Full Review »

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