Can't Hardly Wait . Tucson Weekly . 06-29-98

Can't Hardly Wait

DIRECTED BY: Harry Elfont

REVIEWED: 06-29-98

This movie rocked my world. Jennifer Love Hewitt stars as a high-school princess at a really ganga all-night graduation party. She just got the big dumpola from her hunky jock boyfriend, Peter "Hey, I'm Tom Cruise's look-alike and there's no stoppin' me" Facinelli. But no prob, 'cause the totally sweet Ethan "Look out Matthew McConaughy, I'm takin' over" Embry has been in love with her for like eons, and he's telling her tonight! But guess what? Embry's cynical best friend, played by Lauren "Mind if I borrow your attitude, Ms. Garofalo?" Ambrose, loves him even more painfully than Mary Stuart Masterson loved Eric Stoltz in Some Kind of Wonderful! Ouch! If you think that's brutal, wait till you get a load of Seth Green, a dweeby wannabe who has no idea where it's at; or Charlie Korsmo, the genius geek who finally stands up and makes everybody take notice! It's a kick-ass party that made me wish I was invited. And it was rad to see a cameo by Sabrina the Teenage Witch--without that stupid cat! Writer/directors Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan are, like, the John Hughes of the '90s.

--Brittany Barnes

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