Can't Hardly Wait
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2014
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
When Chris finally got around to seeing this one on home video, the whole Preston/Amanda love-letter situation hit a little too close to home for him to be able to fully enjoy it. Carlos was always a fan and Donna remembered liking it as well (but not as much as the overzealous friend who sort of tainted her initial theatrical viewing by insisting there was more going on with this film than was probably fair).
These days, Can't Hardly Wait is no longer the "salt in the wound" situation it used to be for Chris and he found plenty to enjoy. Everyone seemed to agree that it doesn't quite reach the John Hughes-esque heights its aspiring to, but that the movie still works as a relatively harmless good time.
Topics include: unexpected consequences of Chris' obsession with Jennifer Love Hewitt back in high school, the story behind his real-life Preston moment, the film's struggle to secure a PG-13 rating and which characters & subplots were removed as a result, a debate about the character of Denise, some questions about what Amanda's even doing at this party, a few anecdotes about the early days of AOL Instant Messenger and X-rated chat rooms, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Can't Hardly Wait? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.4 | And today we're revisiting Can't Hardly Wait. |
| 0:54.0 | Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Can't Hardly Wait. Yesterday's history. Tomorrow's the future. Tonight's the party. Can't Hardly Wait is a |
| 1:00.2 | 1998 comedy about a group of high school graduates celebrating one last hurrah before life takes them |
| 1:05.5 | in different directions. It's post-scream, but pre-American pie, and high school comedies |
| 1:10.6 | weren't completely back in vogue yet. |
| 1:12.9 | As a result, the film is crammed with familiar faces because everyone in town who could believably play a teenager read for a part. |
| 1:19.9 | And with most of the story set at an out-of-control party, there were plenty to go around. |
| 1:24.5 | At the time of its release, the filmmakers indicated they were chasing that elusive combination |
| 1:28.5 | of hilarity and sentimentality that John Hughes had made look so easy in the mid to late 80s. |
| 1:33.8 | Can't Hardly Wait probably doesn't belong in the same conversation as those movies, |
| 1:37.4 | but it has developed a devoted cult following in the 15 years since its release. |
| 1:42.7 | Also 15 years, barf. |
| 1:45.5 | Donna, what do you remember about Can't Hardly Wait? |
| 1:48.6 | Well, I remember going to see this movie with a whole bunch of friends. |
| 1:53.8 | It was the high school times. |
| 1:56.1 | It was the good times. |
| 1:57.8 | There were driver's licenses, but no big problems yet. Is that Dickens? Yeah. It was the high school times. It was the good times. There were driver's licenses, but no big problems yet. |
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