Can't Hardly Wait [1998, Movie] tvguide review
The graduating class of Huntington Hills high is having a wild party, and over the course of a long, drunken evening, a series of stories overlap and intersect. Sensitive outcast Preston (Ethan Embry), who's leaving the next day for a writing seminar with Kurt Vonnegut, moons over prom queen Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), on whom he's had a crush since freshman year. Amanda has just been dumped by her self-centered jock Mike (Peter Facinelli), who's trying to bully his buds into ditching their girls, too, so they'll all be free for hot college-babe action. Sharp-tongued loner Denise (Lauren Ambrose) reconnects with childhood pal Kenny (Seth Green), who wants to be a homey. he's sort of funny - callin himself Special K.
I turned this on to see Lauren Ambrose (Clare on SixFeetUnder). similar character here. (meanwhile SixFeetUnder is airing on Bravo - she's befriending Parker McKenna, who says "Nobody's ever who they seem to be" and Clare says "Nobody interesting.")
It's not that bad. this is about right: It's all cutely derivative, occasionally charming and very occasionally clever -- the sequence in which a discarded love letter makes its way out of the trash and into the hands of the girl for whom it was intended Hewitt from the sensitive guy is a small gem -- but the busy pop-culture web on which the story rests won't bear the weight of, say, a sage Fellini-esque stripper in an angel costume - Jenna (Dharma & Greg) Elfman. I like her. generally I guess, and here as the angel who needs the phone in the booth that sensitive guy is in, calling a radio station for advice - "oh I'm weird. you're the one calling Barry Manilow at 2am." I liked that scene.
Hewitt is not totally annoying me. but she does have the same annoying mannerisms as Neve Campbell, it's weird how just the same. is this a lasting effect of Partyof Five directing?