In a gender-reversed version of his previous hit Pretty in Pink, John
Hughes retreads all-too- familiar ground in Some Kind of Wonderful, the
story of a sensitive, young would-be artist, Keith , who
vies for the affection of his high school's popularity queen, Amanda
(Lea Thompson), seemingly out of some deep-rooted insecurity regarding
his social ineptitude. He enlists the help of his butch best friend and
fellow misfit, Watts, unaware that she secretly
pines for him. While she
goads him to give up his pointless pursuit of Amanda, he encounters one
other small obstacle -- Amanda's rich bully of a boyfriend, Hardy
who threatens Keith with a face rearrangement.
Undeterred, Keith decides he will, by any means necessary, escort his
dream girl to the prom -- but not before he buys her expensive jewelry
with the money from his college fund in order to impress her. -Rottentomatoes
