With some quick reading, you can find that Hughes’ original ending to Pretty in Pink had Andie leaving with Duckie, but due to test audience disapproval, the script was changed and Andie ends up with Blaine. Watching Some Kind of Wonderful this time made me believe that this was Hughes chance to retell Pretty in Pink.
While watching I was easily transported back to 1987 (the year is even uttered by Watts) and my own senior year in high school. I did not come to it completely clean and unbiased, but it was the cleanest viewing of all of these Hughes’ films. Maybe it is because I have so few real memories of this film, but I really enjoyed watching it again. I did catch it on cable a few times during college and I do remember liking it. Some Kind of Wonderful did not have the same lasting effect on me that the previous Hughes films had.
I definitely recognized a few of the cast members like Lea Thompson from Back to the Future and I had read that Eric Stoltz was supposed to be Marty McFly, but was replaced by Michael J. I did go see it in the theater, but clearly my mind was other places because all really remember is someone playing drums, probably because of that teaser. I do remember seeing the teaser and loving it it definitely made me excited to see the latest Hughes installment and is still one of my favorite teasers of all time. I was dating and madly in love with my future wife, I was just accepted to the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and I was mentally preparing for my return to the United States after living overseas for the previous six years – so, pardon me for not remembering everything about the movie. The reason that this film escapes me a bit today is that in February of 1987 I was a senior at Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, (then) West Germany. Some Kind of Wonderful was released almost exactly a year after Pretty in Pink, in February of 1987. Of all of these films, this is the one that I remember the least – that I have the fewest recollections about. Now it is time to close off the decade of Hughes with Some Kind of Wonderful. We’ve discuss (in chronological order) Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Pretty in Pink. Here it goes – my last installment of looking back at the Big 5 John Hughes classics from the ‘80s.
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Some Kind of Wonderful End to This Series
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