Some Kind Of Wonderful With Special Guests Lea Thompson & Howard Deutch

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

A wise woman once told her love-stricken friend, “don't go mistaking paradise for a pair of long legs”. The legs she was referring to belonged to Amanda Jones (played by Lea Thompson). The advice was given by Watts (played by Mary Stuart Masterson), and the reluctant recipient of the sage warning was Keith (played by Eric Stoltz). Some Kind Of Wonderful was more than a movie, it was a love sonnet penned by John Hughes and directed by Howard Deutch. It checked all the boxes...

Teen angst
Love
Jealousy
Bratty little sister
Handsome jerk boyfriend

The movie had it all! And today on Buzzn The Tower with the help of two very special guests (Lea Thompson and Howard Deutch) we're gonna deep dive into one of our favorite flicks, Some Kind Of Wonderful. I'm Mo Shapiro and joining me as always the Hardy Jenns to my Keith Nelson, Max Sanders. And with that...

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0:00.0	We were looking back at some old videos, Leah, and one of the first things that you did
0:16.5	acting was a Burger King Christmas video.
0:20.2	And we were totally blown away by this.
0:22.4	It was you, Elizabeth Shoe, and Sarah Michelle Geller.
0:26.0	Yeah, they had a really good casting director.
0:30.5	That same casting director also cast Meg Ryan.
0:33.0	That's all cool.
0:35.0	All of us were completely unknown.
0:38.3	And Elizabeth Shoe and I used to have to, I mean, she was a cool chick.
0:43.7	We were both really cool chicks.
0:45.1	I mean, like, I hid my hair so I looked like I'd have a different hair do.
0:50.1	Like I'd have a short, like Dorothy Hamill thing.
0:52.7	I was embarrassed.
0:54.7	They used to make Lisa, or that's what you call it, Lisa and I do the same commercial and
1:01.7	to decide who they wanted, who they thought was better.
1:05.2	So we'd watch the other one do the exact same commercials for 100 takes.
1:10.0	Then they'd put me in and do 100 takes.
1:12.7	So Lisa and I got really sick of this.
1:14.8	And so one day we were like, you know what?
1:17.9	There's a McDonald's across the street.
1:19.4	We're going to go over there and get lunch.
1:21.8	Oh, that's incredible.
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