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Secret Admirer (1985) 6.5
An anonymous love letter left in Michael's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life, and the lives of everyone who come in contact with it. Director:David Greenwalt |
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Cast
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| C. Thomas Howell | ... | ||
| Lori Loughlin | ... | ||
| Kelly Preston | ... | ||
| Dee Wallace | ... |
Connie Ryan
(as Dee Wallace Stone)
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| Cliff De Young | ... |
George Ryan
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| Leigh Taylor-Young | ... | ||
| Fred Ward | ... | ||
| Casey Siemaszko | ... | ||
| Geoffrey Blake | ... | ||
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Rodney Pearson | ... | |
| Courtney Gains | ... | ||
| J.J. Cohen | ... | ||
| Scott McGinnis | ... | ||
| Corey Haim | ... |
Jeff
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Michael Menzies | ... | |
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On the last day before summer vacations Michael receives a glowing, but anonymous, love-letter. He suspects, or better: hopes, it's from Deborah, the girl he's after since a while, but who dates college students only. However she shows him a cold shoulder again. So his and her best friend Toni advises him to write her an anonymous letter in return. However these letters get in the wrong hands and cause lots of confusion in their families, until it's revealed, who wrote which letter to whom. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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Sometimes What You're Looking For... Is Right Beside You. See more »Parents Guide:
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14 June 1985 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by David Greenwalt
Performed by Rosemary Butler and Arnold McCuller
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Five years after this film's release, Lori Loughlin appeared in the "Full House" episode Full House: Secret Admirer (1990), which also had a plot about a love letter falling into the wrong hands and causing familial distress. See more »Goofs
When Michael is writing the letter to Debbie the pen he is writing with is yellow with a blue top but in the next shot when he brings the pen up it is clear with a black top. See more »Soundtracks
Just A Dream AwayWritten by David Greenwalt
Performed by Rosemary Butler and Arnold McCuller
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High school student Michael Ryan gets a letter from a secret admirer who he believes to be Debbie, a beautiful but shallow girl who only dates college guys. He goes to a fraternity party to find out if she is indeed the one, but that does not work out too well. For one thing, Debbie's boyfriend Steve still wants her even though she is tired of him. So Michael goes to his attractive and intelligent friend Toni, who is also a friend of Debbie's, to find out what to do. Michael starts writing anonymous letters of his own to Debbie (who is not identified), but the letters wind up in the wrong hands, with hilarious results. The letters that make it to Debbie, of course, are not Michael's because Toni doesn't think they are good enough and she makes changes. This is strange because it is clear throughout the entire movie that Toni and Michael belong together, so if Toni wanted Michael, all she would have to do would be to deliver the terrible letters to Debbie, who supposedly wouldn't want Michael after reading them.
There is some, but not a lot of physical comedy in this movie. Some of it results from confusion about who is in love with whom, and jealousy on the part of husbands, wives, boyfriends and girlfriends. There is also a scene where a former girlfriend has found out her boyfriend bragged, and she gets revenge. You wouldn't expect this particular girl to be violent.
I didn't see any great acting performances, though I liked Toni, and Kelly Preston sometimes came across quite well as the self-centered Debbie. Overall, I enjoyed it.