Some Kind of Wonderful [DVD] [1987] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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  • Actor : Eric Stoltz
  • Actor : Mary Stuart Masterson
  • Actor : Lea Thompson
  • Actor : Craig Sheffer
  • Actor : John Ashton
  • Binding : DVD
  • Creator : Eric Stoltz
  • Creator : Mary Stuart Masterson
  • Creator : Jan Kiesser
  • Creator : Bud S. Smith
  • Creator : M. Scott Smith
  • Creator : John Hughes
  • Creator : John Hughes
  • Creator : Michael Chinich
  • Creator : Ronald Colby
  • Director : Howard Deutch
  • EAN : 9780792181774
  • Format : Closed-captioned
  • Format : Colour
  • Format : Dolby
  • Format : DVD-Video
  • Format : Subtitled
  • Format : Widescreen
  • Format : NTSC
  • ISBN : 0792181778
  • Label : Paramount
  • Languages : Subtitled: English, Original Language: English, Original Language: French
  • Manufacturer : Paramount
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Number Of Items : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.60 inches (Height) x 7.50 inches (Length) x 0.20 pounds (Weight) x 5.40 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : DVD
  • Publisher : Paramount
  • Region Code : 1
  • Release Date : 2002-08-20
  • Running Time : 95
  • SKU : mon0000000344
  • Studio : Paramount
  • UPC : 097363197942

In Some Kind of Wonderful, John Hughes crystallises, for good and ill, much of the stock material of the modern high-school romantic comedy. There is the outsider boy Keith (Eric Stolz) with artistic talent and sexual ambitions above his lowly status in a hierarchy based on wealth and popularity. There is Watts, (Mary Stuart Masterson) the tomboy next door, whose good looks and love for him he has somehow always failed to notice. And, most interestingly, there is Amanda Jones (Lea Thompson), who has parlayed her looks into running with the rich kids, but is starting to realise she has the worst of the bargain. There are some odd ambiguities here--all three take passive-aggressive behaviour to a level that is not entirely sympathetic--as well as some slick plotting: Keith's attempt to befriend Amanda by following her into detention brings him into contact with delinquents like Duncan, a terrifying skinhead who is more than he seems. In the end, there is just enough edge and invention here to keep it from being as crass and sentimental as films which have imitated its formula. On the DVD: Some Kind of Wonderful is presented in 1.78:1 visual aspect ratio and has Dolby 5:1 sound in English, surround sound in Italian and mono in German and Italian--it also has subtitles in those languages and Danish, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Swedish and Turkish and no other special features whatever. --Roz Kaveney

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