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Eight Days a Week (1997) -- 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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Director:
Michael Davis
Writer:
Michael Davis (writer)
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Release Date:
26 February 1999 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Love has never been THIS hard... more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins more
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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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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexual content and related dialogue.
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Runtime:
92 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White | Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Australia:MA | USA:R
Company:
Underdog Productions more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The film gets its name from the Beatle song "Eight Days A Week". more
Goofs:
Continuity: Erica douses Peter with water from the sprinkler, but in the very next shot, he is completely dry. more
Quotes:
[last lines]
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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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (1999-03-06)" (1999) more

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10 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
Teen angst is funny, 5 April 2005
10/10
Author: AlbinoAl from United Kingdom

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.

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