Additional information for Can't Hardly Wait, which has a domestic theatrical release set for June 12, 1998. The film is being distributed by Columbia Pictures and has not yet been rated. Can't Hardly Wait has a total running time of 100 minutes.
13
Argentina
M
Australia
U
France
12
Germany
PG13
Singapore
13
Spain
7
Sweden
12
UK
PG-13
USA
L
Iceland
14A
Canada
100min
Ya no puedo esperar
Argentina
Ya no puedo esperar
Mexico
Ya no puedo esperar
Spain
Mal Posso Esperar
Brazil
Mal Posso Esperar
Portugal
Alla var där
Sweden
Big Party
France
Buli az élet
Hungary
Ce soir, tout est permis
Canada
Giovani, pazzi e svitati
Italy
Ich kann's kaum erwarten
Germany
Nyt bailataan
Finland
Party Zone!
Denmark
Party apo-foitisis
Greece
Szalona impreza
Poland
The Party
USA
June 12, 1998
Canada
June 12, 1998
USA
September 17, 1998
Australia
October 15, 1998
Singapore
October 31, 1998
Indonesia
November 06, 1998
Mexico
November 19, 1998
Malaysia
November 27, 1998
Iceland
December 04, 1998
Norway
January 29, 1999
Sweden
February 12, 1999
Denmark
March 26, 1999
Spain
June 10, 1999
Hungary
June 30, 1999
Belgium
July 14, 1999
France
July 30, 1999
Italy
August 04, 1999
Argentina
September 12, 2004
UK
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Multicharacter teenage comedy about high school graduates with different agenda of life on graduation night.
Preston Meyers and his best friend, Denise, meet up after their graduation ceremony. Preston has just learned that Amanda Beckett, a girl he's been infatuated with for the past four years, is now single. He talks Denise into going to the huge after-graduation bash at Molly's house so he can give Amanda a love letter he's been working on for years. Of course, Molly's parents are not home, so the party is a free-for-all.Also at the party is Kenny Fisher, a.k.a. "Special K." Kenny is a short, white kid who acts like a black kid. He speaks the lingo and wears all the hip, urban clothes. Kenny used to be Denise's best friend in grade school, but he moved on when they got into middle school. He wanted to be a cool kid, so he left her behind and even harassed her in high school.Amanda's ex-boyfriend, Mike Dexter, is at the party as well. He decided to break up with Amanda because he'd soon be going off to college and having sex with all kinds of other girls. He tries to get his three best friends, all jock-types, to break up with their girlfriends, too.Another guy at the party is the school geek and misfit William Lichter. Poor William has been tortured and bullied for years by Mike. He's out for revenge as he and his nerdy friends plan to get Mike drunk and take naked pictures of him and his friends in a gay embrace.At the house party, Preston tries to get up the nerve to talk to Amanda, he leaves Denise on her own. We find that she hasn't really got any friends and no one at the party knows her. After realizing she doesn't belong, she decides to leave. But a brownie smacks her in the side of the head, so she has to seek a bathroom to clean up.Meanwhile, Kenny is determined to lose his virginity at the party and he's narrowed it down to 10 "lucky" finalists. Once he realizes that none of them want to get with him, he decides that anyone will do. He hears a girl say that she wanted to get back at her cheating boyfriend and she was going to sleep with the next guy who talked to her. 'Special K' takes advantage of overhearing the conversation and goes to freshen up in the bathroom. Unfortunately, there is a huge line, so he gets Molly to let him upstairs (where NO ONE is supposed to go) to use that bathroom. The doorknob is broken, so he shouldn't shut the door all the way.Kenny and Denise end up locked in the bathroom and we learn all about their past and get to see them reconcile. They eventually have sex and then get in an argument about it.Meanwhile, Preston is having a hard time talking to Amanda, who is being consoled by her airhead friends and hit on by every guy in the place. At one point, a friend embarrasses Preston in front of Amanda by talking about how he'd puked in his backpack years before.Mike meets up with a guy named Trip McNeely, who was a "sexual icon" in his high school years. Trip tells Mike that the biggest mistake he made was breaking up with his long-term girlfriend when he went to college because he thought he'd be getting with all kinds of girls there. Mike realizes he made a mistake with Amanda and tries to get back with her. She refuses him and in his humiliation he starts drinking heavily.
William sees his opportunity, but is getting drunk himself. They spend time talking about things and Mike apologizes to William about being a jerk to him all these years.Amanda is talking to her cousin Ron about Mike, and Ron grabs her and kiss her. Preston goes inside with the letter just in time to see this scene. Heartbroken, he leaves. Amanda pushes Ron away, disgusted. Outside, a shattered Preston tosses the letter in the trash and heads home.Amanda sits down inside the house, wondering what is next. Preston's letter is knocked out of the trash and gets stuck to a girl's shoe. After being brought into the house, it ends up in front of Amanda. She reads it and melts. But she has no idea who Preston is. She goes home and begins tearing down the memories she had with Mike. Preston's letter helped her realize she was special and that she was worth much more than just being Mike's girlfriend.Also part of the story is the band scheduled to play during the party. They are excited that perhaps an acquaintance of a famous rocker may be there. As they begin to play, they have a fight about what some of the band members are wearing. Eventually, they decide to get back together, only as soon as they begin to finally play, the police show up to bust the party.When the cops show up at the party, it is way out of control. William tells Mike they have to get out of there and they run outside. Unfortunately, Mike runs to the pool house which is where William's nerdy friends are waiting to chloroform Mike and his buddies for the picture-taking. They ambush Mike and William and take gay pictures of them before they realize what they've done. Mike and William end up in jail.Denise is out walking home as Kenny drives up beside her. He says he's sorry for the fight they had and they make up and head to a diner for breakfast. Outside the diner, Denise goes to talk to Preston about what happened and he tells her Amanda didn't feel the same way.William wakes up in jail and learns from an officer that Mike has taken all the heat, saying he beat William up and took the naked pictures of him. The next morning, William heads to the diner to thank Mike, but Mike is acting like his old self again, telling William to get lost. Stung by Mike's betrayal, William walks out of the diner, vowing never to see or talk to Mike again.Preston goes home and the next day he heads to the train station to go off to school. Amanda finds him there and thanks him for the letter. They decide that since he's leaving, they can't be together. She says she should probably be alone for a while anyway. As she walks away, they both turn and run to each other. They decide to try to make it work long-distance. They write to each other every day and have never been happier.THE END.
Harry Elfont
Deborah Kaplan
Director(s)
Deborah Kaplan
Harry Elfont
Writer(s)
Richard Graves
associate producer
Karen Koch
co-producer
Betty Thomas
producer
Jenno Topping
producer
Producer(s)
David Kitay
Composer(s)
Amanda Beckett
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Preston Meyers
Ethan Embry
William Lichter
Charlie Korsmo
Denise Fleming
Lauren Ambrose
Mike Dexter
Peter Facinelli
Kenny Fisher
Seth Green
Girl Whose Party It Is
Michelle Brookhurst
Exchange Student
Alexander Martin
Cousin Ron
Erik Palladino
Jock #1
Channon Roe
Jock #2
Sean Patrick Thomas
Jock #3 (as Freddy Rodriguez)
Freddy Rodríguez
X-Phile #1
Joel Michaely
X-Phile #2
Jay Paulson
Real Homeboy
Brian Hall
Homeboy #1
Branden Williams
Homeboy #2 (as Bobby Jacoby)
Robert Jayne
Guitar Player
Johnny Zander
Drummer
Donald Faison
Bass Player (as Alaa Khaled)
Alec Ledd
Girlfriend #1 (as Jamie Pressly)
Jaime Pressly
Girlfriend #2
Tamala Jones
Girlfriend #3
Jennifer Lyons
Keg Guy
Seth Peterson
Beer Drinker
Angelo Vacco
Beer Drinker
Nick Paulos
Klepto Kid
Chris Owen
Reddi Whip Kid (as Vicellous Shannon)
Vicellous Reon Shannon
Reminiscing Guy
Victor Togunde
Groupie
Monica McSwain
Groupie
Marisol Nichols
Gossipy Girl
Liz Stauber
Ready to Have Sex Girl
Nicole Bilderback
Watermelon Guy
Jason Segel
Ashley
Paige Moss
Jana (as Clea Duvall)
Clea DuVall
Ready to Have Sex's Friend
Leslie Grossman
Language Lab Girl
Ali MacLean
Stoner Guy
Brian Klugman
Hippie Girl
Meadow Sisto
Deborah Kaplan
Director(s)
Harry Elfont
Writer(s)
associate producer
Karen Koch
co-producer
Betty Thomas
producer
Jenno Topping
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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