It's the movie in which Rice is in love with her best friend who is in love the the popular girl and ask Rice to help him get Miss Popular to like him, but in the end realizes that he is in love with Rice and offers her the earrings that he wasted his college money on . . . . . Have you heard of it? Help!?!
2007-03-20 15:57:45 · 10 answers · asked by tiny_person_89 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
I think you are talking about "Some Kind of Wonderful" although the name is not Rice , but Watts....see below
After dominating the teen-movie genre for the bulk of the 1980s, writer-producer (and sometimes director) John Hughes proved that he had at least one good movie left in him before squandering his talent on lame comedies throughout the 1990s. Like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful treated its teenaged characters like real people with real feelings, hopes, fears, and desire. Mary Stuart Masterson gives a great performance as a tomboy drummer named Watts who's secretly in love with her best friend, Keith (Eric Stoltz), an aspiring artist who is oblivious to her affection because he's got a crush on Amanda (Lea Thompson), the popular high school beauty. Watts will even go so far as to chauffeur a date for Keith and Amanda, if only to prove--after a lot of patient, emotional anguish--that she's better for Keith than Amanda could ever be. The movie's drama comes from Keith's gradual realization that there's more to love than surface attraction, and Hughes gets extra mileage out of the romantic confusion by allowing Thompson's character to be more than a shallow campus cutie. All three of the leads are good fits in their roles, and this was one of the few teen films of the '80s to add genuine depth to its mainstream appeal. It's one of the few John Hughes movies to stand the test of time. --Jeff Shannon
An Amazon review of the movie (and it mentions the earrings)
1987's Some Kind Of Wonderful is a gender-revised version of 1986's Pretty In Pink. Eric Stoltz takes the place of Molly Ringwald and Lea Thompson & Mary Stuart Masterson do the same for Andrew McCarthy & Jon Cryer. Mr. Stoltz plays Keith a loner, artistic type who works at a garage and whose best friend is a tom girl, drummer Watts played by Ms. Masterson. Keith pines after Amanda Jones (Ms. Thompson), one of the most popular girls in school. Amanda dates the spoiled rich boy Hardy Jenns (Craig Sheffer) and after they fight, Keith swoops in and asks Amanda for a date, to which she agrees. Keith finds out that the whole date is just a setup to get him to Jenns' house so he can beat him up, he still continues with the date. He sets an elaborate evening, dinner at a fancy restaurant, art museum after hours and a set of diamond earrings. It turns out that Amanda isn't some spoiled rich girl, but a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who sold herself out for popularity. All the while, Watts is secretly in love with Keith and in the end after a showdown at Jenns' house where he is exposed as a chicken and fraud, Keith realizes his true feelings for Watts and they kiss. The movie is filled with nice performances by the three leads, but it is the supporting players that give the best performances. John Ashton is perfectly gruff and pushing as Keith's dad, Maddie Corman is the classic, annoying younger sister, but Elias Koteas steals the show as Duncan, the school thug who befriends Keith. Mr. Koteas throws out some classic lines. This was the last film John Hughes would write or director in the classic 80's teen angst vein. The soundtrack to the film is excellent, featuring no name bands like Flesh For Lulu, The Licking Tins and Furniture and it captures the essence of the films.
2007-03-20 16:05:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jay C 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Um... the only 80's movie I recall that had a girl named Rice in it was about a dog named Beethoven.
2007-03-20 16:05:29 · answer #2 · answered by mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well there is a girl named Rice in the movie Beethoven! but other than that i dont know
sorry :(
2007-03-20 16:05:16 · answer #3 · answered by surferbabi 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some Kind Of Wonderful
2007-03-20 16:06:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only movie i know with a girl names rice is beethoven.
2007-03-20 16:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some Kind of Wonderful
2007-03-20 16:06:03 · answer #6 · answered by Nessa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some kind of wonderful...i love the movie but her name isn't rice, it's watts.
2007-03-20 16:19:21 · answer #7 · answered by Del M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Some Kind Of Wonderful'
The ending is one of the happiest/tearjerking scenes you'll ever see in any movie. Makes a grown man cry ;-)
2007-03-20 16:28:54 · answer #8 · answered by Army Of Machines (Wi-Semper-Fi)! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does sound like the movie mentioned by Jay-C, but unfortunately I can't help you with names because I myself do not remember.
2007-03-20 19:36:43 · answer #9 · answered by tani n 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know Beethoven had a character name Ryce....not sure if it's the one you're looking for. :)
2007-03-20 16:05:45 · answer #10 · answered by I♥my emily 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋