Cant Hardly Wait
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. 500 high school seniors look forward to a party, while in the meantime a boy wants to get a girl he';s loved for years that just broke up with her boyfriend and one head-case that wants revenge on a lifelong bully. So the party comes, things develop. People have sex, drink, and go along with most of the guidelines of a high school graduation party.
29 October 1970, Yakima, Washington, USA
10 May 1968, Yonkers, New York, USA
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
31 October 1975, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
30 January 1973, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
30 October 1972, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
18 April 1976, Smithtown, Long Island, New York, USA
11 April 1971, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
17 February 1974, New York City, New York, USA
13 June 1978, Huntington Beach, California, USA
4 February 1955, Oxnard, California, USA
29 November 1969, New York City, New York, USA
12 November 1974, Pasadena, California, USA
27 September 1972, Houston, Texas, USA
8 February 1974, Overbrook Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 October 1974, Hollywood, California, USA
27 October 1969, Pasadena, California, USA
27 June 1979, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1973, Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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March 19, 2014
Flat characters are stuck in underdeveloped situations in this attempt by first-time directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont to recapture the mood of a John Hughes 1980s teen comedy.
March 19, 2014
Fortunately, some of the appealing young performers -- who include Ethan Embry, Charlie Korsmo, Lauren Ambrose and, especially, Seth Green -- manage to emerge from the film's generic suburban-teen backdrop.
August 06, 2007
A high-spirited, synthetically raucous house-party comedy.
March 19, 2014
This charmless and predictable teen comedy is packed with tired, second-hand ideas that render it wholly uninspiring.
March 19, 2014
This formula teen flick has engaging performances and a few laughs.
March 19, 2014
Kaplan and Elfont provide a real public service by showing how underage binge drinking can boost bookish students' social lives.
March 19, 2014
There are signs that Can't Hardly Wait once had more serious aspirations... But in the final edit, at least, it's the dumb, broad slapstick that prevails, short-circuiting identification with the characters before it can begin.
March 19, 2014
What's best about Wait are the bright turns by its young cast.
March 19, 2014
Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the time wasted pandering to them.
March 19, 2014
The film deserves credit, both for its breezy pacing and its uncommon tendency to make its characters smarter and geekier than they might have been.
March 19, 2014
It's mostly broad comedy. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just that it's all been done before.
March 19, 2014
The majority of the film is mired in magazine cliches and tired gags. Oh, look, the foreign exchange student only knows how to say he's a sex machine, haw! And the nerd's getting drunk! Hoo!
