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A 1987 romantic teen dramedy written by Creator/JohnHughes and directed by Howard Deutch, ''Some Kind of Wonderful'' was the last of Hughes's six acclaimed teen films in TheEighties.
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A 1987 romantic teen dramedy film written by Creator/JohnHughes and directed by Howard Deutch, ''Some Kind of Wonderful'' was the last of Hughes's six acclaimed teen films in TheEighties.
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-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert''''s [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/some-kind-of-wonderful-1987 review]]
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* TriangRelations: Keith wants Amanda, who doesn't even acknowledge his existence for most of the time. Watts has serious feelings for Keith, and he eventually realises he loves her too.
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* TheLadette: Watts. Before the PracticeKiss, she even says to Keith: "Pretend I'm a girl" since she acts more like a stereotypical teenage boy.
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* TheLadette: Watts. Before the PracticeKiss, she even says to Keith: "Pretend I'm a girl" since she acts more like a stereotypical teenage boy.boy, with her {{boyish short hair}} and masculine attire (including wearing boxers) to boot.
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* ThemeNaming: Keith and Watts are both named after members of Music/TheRollingStones, and "Miss Amanda Jones" was the title of one of their songs.
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* ThemeNaming: Keith and Watts are both named after members of Music/TheRollingStones, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, and "Miss Amanda Jones" was the title of one of their songs.
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* MistakenForGay: Watts. At the beginning, a guy tells her that she has "a little bit too much up front to be a guy" so she has to be a lesbian.
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* MistakenForGay: Watts. At the beginning, a guy tells her that she has "a little bit too much up front to be a guy" so she has to be a lesbian. She's actually a straight tomboy though, into her friend Keith.
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* {{Bifauxnen}}: Watts in the last act.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Watts (the Betty) rivaling Amanda (the Veronica) over the boy they love, Keith (the Archie).
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* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Duncan, Keith's skinhead/biker friend, is actually quite nice and polite and does his best to look out for Keith and Amanda.
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** Duncan, Keith's skinhead/biker friend, is actually quite nice and polite and does his best to look out for Keith and Amanda.
** Duncan, Keith's skinhead/biker friend, is actually quite nice and polite and does his best to look out for Keith and Amanda.
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* TheLadette: Watts. Before the PracticeKiss, she even says to Keith: "Pretend I'm a girl."
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls Watts on her last name. Her first name is never spoken in the film (according to the novelization, it's Susan).
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls Watts on her last name. Her first name is never spoken in the film (according to the novelization, it's Susan).
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* TheLadette: Watts. Before the PracticeKiss, she even says to Keith: "Pretend I'm a girl."
girl" since she acts more like a stereotypical teenage boy.
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls Wattson by her last name. Her first name is never spoken in the film (according to the novelization, it's Susan).
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls Watts
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* LovableAlphaBitch: Amanda, as it turns out.
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* MistakenForGay: Watts. At the beginning, a guy tells to her that she has "a little bit too much up front to be a guy" so she has to be a lesbian.
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* MistakenForGay: Watts. At the beginning, a guy tells to her that she has "a little bit too much up front to be a guy" so she has to be a lesbian.
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* OneOfTheBoys: Watts. She's tomboyish enough for everyone to assume she just ''has to'' be a lesbian.
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* OneOfTheBoys: Watts. She's tomboyish enough for everyone to assume she just ''has to'' [[MistakenForGay be a lesbian.lesbian]], with only male friends.
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* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Watts (the Tomboy) and Amanda.Amanda (the GirlyGirl) as contrasting {{love interest}}s of Keith.
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* YouNeverAsked: Watts tells this to Keith.
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** Laura may be the AnnoyingYoungerSibling, but when she overhears Hardy and his friends planning to beat up Keith when he shows up at the party, she immediately tells Keith about it, and apologizes for her past behavior.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Of [[BookEnds]] sorts. [[spoiler: The only two characters shown in the opening scene are Keith and Watts. They end up becoming a couple in the closing one.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Of [[BookEnds]] sorts. [[spoiler: The only two characters shown in the opening scene are Keith and Watts. They end up becoming a couple in the closing one.]]
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* PracticeKiss: Keith is convinced by Watts that he should kiss her for practice before he goes out with Amanda. Following it, Keith looks like he's been hit by a train.
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* PracticeKiss: Keith is convinced by Watts that he should kiss her for practice before he goes out with Amanda. Following it, Keith looks like he's been hit by a train.
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* ConspicuousGloves: Watts wears a pair of red leather fingerless gloves in pretty much all her scenes.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Hardy is perfectly capable trying to woo two different girls within single minute, telling both how "Trust is the basis of any relationship".
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Hardy is perfectly capable of trying to woo two different girls within a single minute, telling both how "Trust is the basis of any relationship".
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* OhCrap: Hardy gets a massive one at the end when Duncan, Keith's new biker/skinhead friend, shows up at his party with a bunch of his fellow delinquents. Of course, the OhCrap moment, and preventing Hardy from throwing Keith a beating, was the entire point of showing up to Hardy's party in the first place.
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* OhCrap: Hardy gets a massive one at the end when Duncan, Keith's new biker/skinhead friend, shows up at his party with a bunch of his fellow delinquents. Of course, the OhCrap moment, and preventing Hardy from throwing Keith a beating, beating up Keith, was the entire point of showing up to Hardy's party in the first place.
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* BigDamnHeroes: The party.
-->'''Hardy''': You're gonna have to beg.
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-->'''Duncan''': I don't thank that'll be necessary.
-->'''Hardy''': You're gonna have to beg.
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-->'''Duncan''': I don't thank that'll be necessary.
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This trope is when a creator repeatedly recycles the same story. When one specific work is a rehash of one other specific work, that's Recycled Script - which goes on the trivia page.
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* SameStoryDifferentNames: ''Some Kind of Wonderful'' and ''Pretty in Pink''.
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* LastOfItsKind: This was the last teen movie that John Hughes ever made. Starting with ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' which was released the same year, Hughes worked on films aimed more towards adults and would go on to write screenplays in the 1990's and a bit of the 2000's, before he died in 2009.
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* LastOfItsKind: This was the last teen movie that John Hughes ever made. Starting with ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' which was released the same year, Hughes worked on films aimed more towards adults for the rest of his life, and would go on to write screenplays in the 1990's and a bit of the 2000's, before he died in 2009.
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* LastOfItsKind: This was the last teen movie that John Hughes ever made. Starting with ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' which was released the same year, Hughes worked on films aimed more towards adults and would go on to write screenplays in the 1990's, before he died in 2009.
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* LastOfItsKind: This was the last teen movie that John Hughes ever made. Starting with ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' which was released the same year, Hughes worked on films aimed more towards adults and would go on to write screenplays in the 1990's, 1990's and a bit of the 2000's, before he died in 2009.
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* LastMinuteHookup: Watts and Keith eventually end up together after he realizes how he feels about her.
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* LastMinuteHookup: Watts and Keith eventually end up together after he realizes realises how he feels about her.her.
* LastOfItsKind: This was the last teen movie that John Hughes ever made. Starting with ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' which was released the same year, Hughes worked on films aimed more towards adults and would go on to write screenplays in the 1990's, before he died in 2009.
* LastOfItsKind: This was the last teen movie that John Hughes ever made. Starting with ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'' which was released the same year, Hughes worked on films aimed more towards adults and would go on to write screenplays in the 1990's, before he died in 2009.
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The protagonist, Keith (Creator/EricStoltz), is a working-class student who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Creator/LeaThompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish best friend Watts (Creator/MaryStuartMasterson) is in love with him, but Keith doesn't notice that. When Keith asks Amanda out right after she breaks up with her jerk of a boyfriend, she says yes, mainly out of spite. Watts's jealousy causes conflict between her and Keith, but they reconcile, and Watts chauffeurs Keith to his date. At first, Keith and Amanda hit it off, but when Keith comes to realize that he loves Watts, Amanda tells him to go to her, and they get together.
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The protagonist, Keith (Creator/EricStoltz), is a working-class student who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Creator/LeaThompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish best friend Watts (Creator/MaryStuartMasterson) is in love with him, but Keith doesn't notice that. When Keith asks Amanda out right after she breaks up with her jerk of a boyfriend, jerkass boyfriend Hardy (Creator/CraigSheffer), she says yes, mainly out of spite. Watts's jealousy causes conflict between her and Keith, but they reconcile, and Watts chauffeurs agrees to chauffeur Keith to his date. At first, Keith and Amanda hit it off, but when Keith comes to realize that he loves Watts, Amanda tells him to go to her, and they get together.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Averted; Watts manages to get the guy without having to change her tomboyish style. (She does dress up in the last act, by putting on a male chauffeur's uniform, not a dress.)
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Averted; Watts manages to get the guy without having to change her tomboyish style. (She does dress get dressed up in the last act, by putting on a male chauffeur's uniform, not a dress.)
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Averted; Watts doesn't change her tomboyish style, and still gets the guy. She does dress up in the last act, but she puts on a male chauffeur's uniform, not a dress.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Averted; Watts doesn't manages to get the guy without having to change her tomboyish style, and still gets the guy. She style. (She does dress up in the last act, but she puts by putting on a male chauffeur's uniform, not a dress.)
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A 1987 romantic teen dramedy written by Creator/JohnHughes and directed by Howard Deutch, ''Some Kind of Wonderful'' is the last in Hughes's acclaimed cycle of teen films in TheEighties.
The protagonist, Keith (Creator/EricStoltz), is a working-class student who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Creator/LeaThompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish best friend, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), is in love with him, but Keith doesn't notice that. Keith eventually asks Amanda out, right after she broke up with her jerk of a boyfriend, so, mainly out of spite, she says yes. Watts's jealousy causes conflict between her and Keith, but they reconcile, and Watts chauffeurs Keith to his date. At first, Keith and Amanda hit it off, but Keith realizes that he loves Watts. Amanda tells him to go to her, and they get together.
The protagonist, Keith (Creator/EricStoltz), is a working-class student who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Creator/LeaThompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish best friend, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), is in love with him, but Keith doesn't notice that. Keith eventually asks Amanda out, right after she broke up with her jerk of a boyfriend, so, mainly out of spite, she says yes. Watts's jealousy causes conflict between her and Keith, but they reconcile, and Watts chauffeurs Keith to his date. At first, Keith and Amanda hit it off, but Keith realizes that he loves Watts. Amanda tells him to go to her, and they get together.
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A 1987 romantic teen dramedy written by Creator/JohnHughes and directed by Howard Deutch, ''Some Kind of Wonderful'' is the last in of Hughes's acclaimed cycle of teen films in TheEighties.
The protagonist, Keith (Creator/EricStoltz), is a working-class student who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Creator/LeaThompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish bestfriend, friend Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), (Creator/MaryStuartMasterson) is in love with him, but Keith doesn't notice that. When Keith eventually asks Amanda out, out right after she broke breaks up with her jerk of a boyfriend, so, she says yes, mainly out of spite, she says yes.spite. Watts's jealousy causes conflict between her and Keith, but they reconcile, and Watts chauffeurs Keith to his date. At first, Keith and Amanda hit it off, but when Keith realizes comes to realize that he loves Watts. Watts, Amanda tells him to go to her, and they get together.
The protagonist, Keith (Creator/EricStoltz), is a working-class student who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Creator/LeaThompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish best
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The protagonist, Keith (Creator/EricStoltz), is a working-class student, student who's in love with popular girl Amanda Jones (Creator/LeaThompson). Meanwhile, his tomboyish best friend, Watts (Mary Stuart Masterson), is in love with him, but Keith doesn't notice that. Keith eventually asks Amanda out, right after she broke up with her jerk of a boyfriend, so, mainly out of spite, she says yes. Watts's jealousy causes conflict between her and Keith, but they reconcile, and Watts chauffeurs Keith to his date. At first, Keith and Amanda hit it off, but Keith realizes that he loves Watts. Amanda tells him to go to her, and they get together.
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* BettyAndVeronica: Watts (the Betty) rivaling Amanda (the Veronica) over the boy they love, Keith (the Archie).
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* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Watts, who is in love with her best friend Keith, who is in love with the rich girl Amanda.
