Can't Hardly Wait . Newcity Chicago . 06-15-98

Can't Hardly Wait

DIRECTED BY: Harry Elfont

REVIEWED: 06-15-98

Directed by Harry Elfont & Deborah Kaplan. In a valiant, MTV-style whirlwind, filmmakers Elfont and Kaplan attempt to resurrect the John Hughes zit-flick, with mixed results. The story goes like this: graduating class gets together for one last drunken blow-out; lonely sensitive guy (Ethan Embry), after pining for the high school beauty (Jennifer Love Hewitt) for years, makes an attempt at professing his secret admiration amidst the wacky world of keggers, nerds, superjocks and beer bongs. There are some good laughes here, an abundance of party clichßs (with no puking - why?), but even Embry and Hewitt, with relatively tender performances, can't elevate the film to the Hughesian plateau. A little less shtick and a little bit more sensitivity would have gone a long way. Fewer "Home Alone" antics and more "Pretty in Pink" heart. And oh hell, throw Judd Nelson in for the fun it.

--Sam Weller

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