Secret Admirer

It was a good one

fun movie for the whole family

“Secret Admirer” was always one of my favorite C. Thomas Howell (“The Outsiders”, “Red Dawn”) movies and I’ve owned the DVD for years. I was eager to see the quality upgrade of the Blu-ray version. The colors are very crisp and the film looks brighter. The audio is excellent and clear. That’s important because sadly, there are no subtitles. This is truly a puzzlement since the DVD has subtitles. You would think the Blu-ray would be released with at least what you get with the DVD. No subtitles makes it difficult for folks like me who wear hearing aids and suffer hearing loss. Sometimes it is difficult to decipher some of words being said. I got most of the dialogue, however, there were some sections I had to playback two or three times to finally understand what was said. I think subtitles should be a standard feature for all Blu-ray releases, especially for those films that have already had the closed caption process added. For those of you with good hearing, this is the version for you. Great print! For the hearing impaired, seek out the DVD version which has subtitles.

SECRET ADMIRER is a hilarious movie that starts out when Michael Ryan(C. Thomas Howel) recieves an anonymous love letter from his pal Toni(Lori Loughlin)on his last day of school, but Michael thinks his secret admirer is Debbie Fimple(Kelly Preston) and then when Michael's love letter gets misplaced Connie Ryan(Dee Wallace-Stone) assumes that her husband George Ryan(Cliff De Young)is having an affair with their pal(Liz Fimple) and then Liz's husband Lt. Lou Fimple(Fred Ward)jumps to the conclusion that Liz is having an affair with George, but George assumes that Liz is falling for him, etc. like a chain reaction or a domino effect, but Michael doesn't discover that his secret admirer was Toni all along until the end of the movie when he finally starts falling for her after the whole chrarade unravels and gets resolved.It was also interesting seeing Corey Haim in this movie as Michael's twerp little brother(Jeffrey Ryan) since it showed us Corey Haim before he even became a star and a teen idol.This comedy flick also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when I was still living in the Imperial Valley since I was 13 years old in the 7th grade over at Wilson Jr. High School in my hometown(El Centro, CA)at the time when SECRET ADMIRIRER made its theatrical release.

I forgot all about this movie and hadn't seen it in decades ! Took a chance and bought it, It was pretty funny of this comedy of errors.

They don't make romantic flicks like this anymore. Glad KL is bringing the classic on Blu-ray DVD.

The movie:Secret Admirer is the story of teenager Michael Ryan, who receives a passionate anonymous love letter on the last day of school. As another letter is written, all the letters fall into the wrong hands, causing confusion with almost everyone in Michael's life, until finally he discovers who wrote him the love letter. Kelly Preston shines in this movie as do a few others in the film. It's a simple story that has drama, love, laughs and plenty of onscreen chemistry.The bluray:The atmosphere shines for that era and skin detail looks amazing. The colors look fabulous and really make each scene pop. The audio is more than adeequate considering its not a scifi or action type movie. Its loud enough to hear each word clearly while still having plenty of realistic background noise. Its easily the best video and audio quality that I have ever seen for this movie. 5 ☆☆☆☆☆'s

I was just graduating college when Secret Admirer came out in the mid 80's. But over 15 years later, it is one of the few 80's teen movies I still enjoy watching over and over again. There really isn't anything new in this movie that hasn't been covered in other movies and the final outcome is pretty predictable, but the cast is a good one. C. Thomas Howell, Kelly Preston (Holy Smokes!) and the absolutely adorable Lori Loughlin work extremely well together with the unrequited love portion of the story and the adult cast (in particular Fred Ward in a hilarious performance) also all have their moments. You even see Corey Haim ("Lucas") before he hit fame and later became a hilarious "True Hollywood Story".Glad to see that this is coming to DVD. I hope it has a commentary track with some of the stars of the flick because it would be interesting to see what they think of the movie so many years later.

Gran película! Me encanta

Lucky to get one of my youth classics

love it or hate it

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Pretty good teen comedy that's got everything a typical 80's movie should have...great casting, slapstick humor, absurd fashions, and awesome soundtrack that captures an essence of the 80's with music by Jan Hammer, Kim Wilde, Nik Kershaw, Van Stephenson to name but a few.Would recommend if you like: Sixteen Candles, The Sure Thing, Dream a Little Dream, Can't Buy Me Love, License to Drive, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science... ok you get it!X X X O O O X X X