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Amanda's friends think she's gone crazy and insist she break the date with Keith and go back to Hardy. She says yes, but mostly just to piss Hardy off. So, after our initial introduction, Keith gets it into his head to ask Amanda out on a date. So here is where we say goodbye to Pretty in Pink and concentrate solely on Some Kind of Wonderful. Steff point, but that would simply show how these films are far more different than alike. I could sit here and write an entire compare/contrast essay on these two movies, highlighting every Watts vs. Which I'll admit, on a bare bones level, it is. Most saw it as a gender reversed Pretty in Pink. Alas, she is dating handsome, rich, philandering, materialistic jerkass Hardy Jenns (Craig Sheffer).ĭoes it sound kind of familiar so far? Yes, well, this is one of the many reasons people didn't take to SKOW. That is, until he falls for Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), The Most Beautiful Girl in School. But underneath her punky clothes and tough attitude, Watts is secretly in love with Keith and perfectly content to keep it secret. His best friend (and only friend, really) is Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson) a drumming tomboy from a broken home. Some Kind of Wonderful is the story of Keith Nelson (Eric Stoltz), an aspiring artist from a lower-middle class neighborhood. Thus the ending was changed and in retaliation, John Hughes wrote a script where the best friend and the main character end up together. But test audiences and studio execs and Molly Ringwald preferred Andrew McCarthy's Blane. He, all along, intended for Andie and friend-zonee Duckie to live happily ever after. What is important is that it wasn't the ending John Hughes wanted. While Andie the Character's decision making process could be discussed ad nauseam (and has), it is not important to us. Then she and Blane make out in the parking lot as the credits roll.
#Some kind of wonderful (1987) movie
If you chose B, then you've seen the movie before, you cheater! Yes, yes.at THE PROM Blane confesses his "love" for Andie, and Duckie gives up and sends her after him. And everyone in the 80's is obsessed with upward mobility. Andie realizes she's only 18 and she'll find someone better in college.ĭ. I mean, it's Andrew McCarthy! No one was hotter in 1986 than Andrew McCarthy.Ĭ. Duckie, obviously! He's the faithful best friend who's always been there for her!ī. Pop quiz! Who do you think Andie ends up with?Ī. Also, Blane's typical asshole BFF Steff (James Spader) also ( for some reason) likes Andie and gets jealous when she goes for Blane! Uh-oh! All would be fine and dandy if it weren't for Duckie (John Cryer) Andie's quirky and fashionable (but straight!) best friend who carries a not-so-secret torch for her.
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And (also for some reason) he likes her back. In 1986, John Hughes wrote and produced a film about an arty and fashionable (but smart!) poor girl named Andie (Molly Ringwald) who (for some reason) starts liking dreamboat rich kid Blane (Andrew McCarthy). So let's grit our teeth and think of our favorite Hollywood celebrity while we go through this, okay? No one can write a proper review of Some Kind of Wonderful without first discussing Pretty in Pink.