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Secret Admirer

1985

Action / Comedy / Romance

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 33% · 12 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 65% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 8556 8.6K

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Plot summary

An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it.

Director

David Greenwalt Photo
David Greenwalt

Top cast

Dee Wallace Photo
Dee Wallace as Connie Ryan
C. Thomas Howell Photo
C. Thomas Howell as Michael Ryan
Kelly Preston Photo
Kelly Preston as Deborah Anne Fimple
Courtney Gains Photo
Courtney Gains as Doug
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902.41 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 2
1.64 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 38 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by intervalkid

Wonderful teen comedy

I saw this first when it came out,I was about ten. I watched it again last night. I loved it then and I love it now. The dialogue acting and plot are really good. The characters are all great and fun as well. I noticed the difference between this movie and "teen comedies" made now and it goes like this. Secret Admirer contained, more subtle thoughtful character based humour, characters with a little more chaste morality (even Kelly's jerk jock boyfriend Steve didn't want to cheat), no sluts, plenty of foul language, diverse scene locations, and more intelligent dialogue and plot twists. I liked the characters a lot and the music by Jan Hammer was fantastic and memorable, which makes sense, since Jan Hammer is a bad S.O.B (just listen to Mahavishnu Orchestra and you will know that). I remember that when I was ten I thought that Kelly preston had the greatest breast, and I was right! I still found the movie just as funny as I did then and found the innocence of the characters endearing, in fact I found every scene memorable. Thomas Howell played the party guy in love to a T. Seeing Corey Haim as his little brother made me sad when I think what happened to the poor guy, he was great, very charismatic! You would have thought he had a great future. Bastard drugs! Anyway the humor is constant even at the end when it seems to be getting serious you get a trippy break when Mike asks for directions.A joy of a film. 10/10.
Reviewed by videorama-759-859391 8 / 10

An 80's comedy, you just have to secretly admire

This is just how we loved these sex comedy films in the eighties, this a cut above a lot of others. Being a C Thomas Howell fan, this is one of my favorites of his his, years before he plummeted into doing continuous dreck, as like many other actors. Smitten by a popular mature girl (Preston), he's longing after, when the real answer was right in front of him, all along, he receives an anonymous love letter, which goes astray, ending up in the wrong hands, well many wrong hands, with disastrous results, it's just fun. This is just another eighties film, which has me wishing, why can't we see stuff like this today. I just wish I could just go back in time. This movie is a lot of fun, while being a bit of a drama too. Howell's friends, larger than life characters, one bringing a suitcase with him, we see, while going up to Howell's crib, are a hoot, where school has ended for the Summer season. The finale that has Howell chase down his admirer, I must say was a little breathtaking, as his admirer is heading off on a weird transport venue of education. All in all, SA is a very enjoyable and and likable comedy where Howell stole a lot of girl's hearts at that time. Fred Ward as Preston's trigger happy cop Father is a classic.
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