Taglines: Yesterday’s history. Tomorrow’s the future. Tonight’s the party.
Can’t Hardly Wait movie storyline. Imagine you were waiting for four long years for your dream to be fulfilled. Imagine that the object of your dreams has always been occupied elsewhere. Now imagine that her friend just broke up with her… Preston is sure his time finally has come!
Everybody needs somebody. Everybody has somebody out there, waiting for them to meet. And for Preston it just has to be Amanda! Amanda Beckett, the girl of his dreams since freshman year in junior high. The sole woman he has been thinking about since she was seated next to him on her first day of high school, since she grabbed the very same breakfast pastry he was consuming at that moment.
Tonight is the night he finally will have the chance to give her the letter he wrote after she hooked up with Dexter, the schools super sportster. The very same letter he revised over and over and over…for at least four billion times. Tonight is the night of the greatest party in town… The party of the century? For these five hundred kids certainly. Love/Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll together with some romance and adventure, philosophy and lifestyle; a memorable mixture.
Couples split, lovers find lovers, friends remain and enemy become friends. And between all that Amanda receives her letter. But who is Preston? Could it be that guy she just sent to get a life? What ordeals do they have to pass before the night is over? And did Barry Manilow really sing about a girl named Mandy, or was it just his dog? In the end Love creates lovers and jerks, well, remain jerks and become losers. A happy end, smutty only to rock-hard anti-romantics. Enjoy and stay young, but thoughtful.
Can’t Hardly Wait is a 1998 American teen comedy film written and directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. It stars an ensemble cast including Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, and Seth Green, and is notable for a number of “before-they-were-famous” appearances by teen stars.
The story takes place at a high school graduation party and in a style much like that of the high school movies of the 1980s. The filmmakers were inspired by their observation that in most teen films the best scenes were the party scenes, and thus decided to make a movie set entirely at a party.
Though the film deals in common high school stereotypes, some favor its chaotic but appealing mise-en-scène and performances. The film takes its name from The Replacements’ song of the same title, from their 1987 album Pleased to Meet Me, which plays over the film’s closing credits.
Can’t Hardly Wait was released on June 12, 1998, and grossed $8,025,910 in its opening weekend. Its total domestic gross was $25,605,015, more than double its production budget.
Can’t Hardly Wait (1998)
Directed by: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose, Peter Facinelli, Seth Green, Michelle Brookhurst, Alexander Martin, Sean Patrick Thomas
Screenplay by: Deborah Kaplan, Harry Elfont
Production Design by: Marcia Hinds, Adam Short
Cinematography by: Lloyd Ahern
Film Editing by: Michael Jablow
Costume Design by: Mark Bridges
Set Decoration by: Jan K. Bergstrom
Art Direction by: Bo Johnson
Music by: David Kitay
MPAA Rating: Taglines: Yesterday’s history. Tomorrow’s the future. Tonight’s the party.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: June 12, 1998
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