IMDb 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 come in contact with it.
Directed by David Greenwalt. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, and Dee Wallace.
This is a spectacularly unfunny comedy and a spectacularly unromantic romance, basically hitting none of the marks at all. I attribute that largely to the characters being obnoxious -- about half the mistaken identity comedy depends heavily on married couples being ready at the drop of a hat to cheat on their partners, and it's OK because the love letters weren't for them in the first place! What a great happy ending! The only person I can empathize with is the girl writing the love letters in the first place, and mostly I just think she deserves way better than the goofball protagonist she likes. It's just a messy, sloppy, ugly film trying to be something much lighter and sillier, but there's not much to get from this.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Secret Admirer < One, Two, Three
Secret Admirer < Horton Hears a Who
Secret Admirer < VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas
Secret Admirer > Love Wrecked
Secret Admirer < Stand Up and Cheer!
Secret Admirer > Avalanche
Secret Admirer < Pokemon: The First Movie
Secret Admirer < Detour
Secret Admirer < Yes Man
Secret Admirer < Breach
Secret Admirer > Song of the South
Secret Admirer < Little Miss Marker (1934)
Final spot: #3073 out of 3335, or 8%.
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