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Michael Davis (writer)
Release Date:
26 February 1999 (USA)
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Love has never been THIS hard... more
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Peter loves his next door neighbour Erica and, on the advice of his grandfather, decides to camp out on her front lawn for the entire summer...
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Wetting Pants
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Teen angst is funny
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Joshua Schaefer | ... | Peter | |
| Keri Russell | ... | Erica | |
| R.D. Robb | ... | Matt | |
| Mark L. Taylor | ... | Peter's Father (as Mark Taylor) | |
| Marcia Shapiro | ... | Marge, Peter's Mother | |
| Johnny Green | ... | Nick | |
| Buck Kartalian | ... | Nonno, Marge's Dad | |
| Catherine Hicks | ... | Ms. Lewis | |
| Patrick Thomas O'Brien | ... | Erica's Father (as Patrick O'Brien) | |
| Darleen Carr | ... | Erica's mother | |
| Biff Manard | ... | The Sad Man | |
| Annie O'Donnell | ... | Sad Man's Wife | |
| Ernestine Mercer | ... | Crazy Lady | |
| Bill Hollis | ... | Mr. Hatfield | |
| Jean St. James | ... | Ms. McCoy (as Jean Pflieger) |
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Rated R for strong sexual content and related dialogue.
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92 min
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The film gets its name from the Beatle song "Eight Days A Week".
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Continuity: Erica douses Peter with water from the sprinkler, but in the very next shot, he is completely dry.
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Peter: My grandfather was right. I now know in my heart of hearts that people are supposed to make love. It is their main purpose in life. All those other activities - playing the violin, washing dishes, reading novels, drinking wine - are just ways of passing time, until you can make love again.
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Peter: My grandfather was right. I now know in my heart of hearts that people are supposed to make love. It is their main purpose in life. All those other activities - playing the violin, washing dishes, reading novels, drinking wine - are just ways of passing time, until you can make love again.
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Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (1999-03-06)" (1999)
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A film that I'd never heard of and chanced upon by accident, Eight Days a Week deserves to be a mainstay of teen cinema in the same way that John Hughes' eighties work is.
Joshua Schaeffer has just the right balance of geek and cool individualism to pull off a character that could very easily fall into stalker territory and R.D. Robb is excellent as his sex-obsessed sidekick; keeping what could very easily become a caricature grounded in reality. The supporting cast of oddballs never overshadow the main story, but equally don't feel like padding as we learn more about their slightly kooky lives.
It's a shame that films like this go unnoticed in a world where much more crass attempts at summing up teenage life (complete with thirty year old actors) can become box office hits.