I know John Hughes wrote astonishingly quickly, a product of his start in advertising and then magazine publication, and maybe those roots inform this picture more than anything. The whole film seems like a Reader’s Digest condensed book, as though someone took a better, nuanced film and severely edited it for TV run-time. ![]() No, the real problem is the pacing and execution of the narrative. Would it be petty and simplistic to say that the biggest issue I have with Some Kind of Wonderful is that it does not feature the fantastic Gerry Coffin/Carole King song of the same name? Not totally serious (not totally joking either)… I know lots of people love the movie, and it was fairly well received by critics at the time, with some suggesting it was an improvement on Pretty In Pink. Because I find it hard to be truly fair with Some Kind of Wonderful. ![]() ![]() Spoiler-free Movie Review of Some Kind of Wonderful:ĭefinitely a case of a film that, not having seen it after all these years, I probably should have just continued to not watch it. Not technically a remake of Pretty In Pink, it nevertheless sort of is.
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