 | MOVIE #1,839 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 07.22.24 • VOLUME LXIX • There's a lot of competition, naturally, but this is in the running for the most 80s movie I've ever seen. This is also a great ‘that guy’ film: C. Thomas Howell, Kelly Preston and Lori Loughlin are the leads, but most of the fun is had by the delightful supporting cast, including Fred Ward, Dee Wallace, Cliff DeYoung, Leigh Taylor-Young, Casey Siemaszko (one of Biff’s stooges in Back to the Future) and a young Corey Haim as Howell’s little brother. The setup is perfectly stupid — a slew of secret admirer letters end up in the wrong hands — leading to a classic interwoven plot which provides fodder for maximum hijinks. It also looks pretty amazing, shot by Victor J. Kemper (Dog Day Afternoon, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and so many more)... |
You can see where this is headed from the opening seconds, but who cares. The singular bits are funny and the overall arc is as rewarding as it is obvious. Sure, there are a dozen too many slurs — if you ever wanted to see Aunt Becky say “homo” then this is the movie for you!...
— but I legit enjoyed this TRUE RANDOM. More, 80s comedies please, GODS of TRUE RANDOM, thank you. Worth watching for Fred Ward alone, honestly…
You don't like this movie? Well,
CHRONOLOGICALLY
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Secret Admirer is a 1985 American teen romantic comedy film co-written and directed by David Greenwalt in his feature film directorial debut, and starring C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston and Fred Ward. The original music score was composed by Jan Hammer. The film was produced at the height of the teen sex comedy cinema craze in the mid-1980s. I am attempting to form a canon around his work as a filmmaker. It was released on June 14, 1985.
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