He dismisses Keith’s plans for art school as unrealistic daydreams, setting up that “classic conflict between what parents want and what you want and what’s right,” Deutch says. Dad (John Ashton) keeps a steady eye on his son’s savings, watching the interest grow, anxious for the day Keith will be the first in the family to go to college.
For Keith, it’s higher learning that produces conflict at home. Hughes teens have bigger concerns than meatloaf. What it’s like to feel completely grown up, completely capable of being responsible for yourself, and having someone say in the midst of all your problems, “What time are you gonna be home for dinner?” I remember that stuff. Asked then about his ability to write from a “teen” perspective, Hughes said letters from fans helped, but he also recalled the contradictions of his own adolescence: While Paramount didn’t lure Hughes back to reminisce about the film, the DVD does provide a mullet-tastic interview conducted by his She’s Having a Baby lead, Kevin Bacon, in 1987. When he writes them - I watched him - he would laugh and cry as he wrote.” He did it because he needs to write them. “They are not characters he wrote for business, to make a script and make money. And we reveled in that.” The movies endure, Deutch says on the DVD commentary track, because the characters were personal. They were all wonderfully thoughtful and smart, which is very rare for a teen film. Stoltz recalls, “All of the characters were pretty richly developed. Still, as Masterson recalls in “The Making of Some Kind of Wonderful“, “People talk about John Hughes movies no matter who directed them, because it really was the very particular school that he created.” Stoltz and Deutch are equally rhapsodic. Wonderful (like Pink) was directed by Howard Deutch. In just three years, he unleashed Sixteen Candles (1984), The Breakfast Club (1985), Weird Science (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), and Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Though it seems hard to remember now in this post-WB world, once upon a time, preteens had to head to the Cineplex to get their fix of adolescent drama, and their go-to storyteller was John Hughes.
And their interplay is hilarious, embarrassing, poignant, but mostly, it’s hot. You know the one: jealous and nervous about Keith’s upcoming date with sexy Amanda (Lea Thompson), best friend Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) convinces him he needs a lesson so he can “deliver a kiss that kills.” For all her bravado, Watts has never kissed anyone before. Nearly 20 years on, I mainly remembered a few great lines (“Break his heart, I break your face”) and that one fantastic, AFI-100-Best-caliber kiss. Keith (Eric Stoltz): Then I’m 19, then I’m 20! When does my life belong to me?Įric Stoltz says that women who talk to him about Some Kind of Wonderful “almost always say, ‘You know, I was 12 when I saw that and it meant so much to me.'” For the record, I was a precocious 11 when I first viewed Stoltz as Keith, the gentle artist torn between two girls. The only things I care about in this goddamn life are me and my drums and you.ĭad (John Aston): Oh, you’re only 18 years old, for Christ’s sake! I can’t afford to have you hate me, Keith.
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