Using his legs to prevent Stoltz and Masterson from passing by without a homophobic confrontation that's loaded with toxic swagger and insecure sexual overcompensation, seeing Koteas’ Duncan, we instinctively hate him on sight. With his shaved head ready to butt anyone who gets in his way to the black leather vest he's compulsively clad in like he's an out of time escapee from the Brando led motorcycle gang of wild ones, our first glimpse of Koteas' Duncan comes through the word “Kill” that has been scratched into his shoes. From the blue-collar auto mechanic with a passion for painting played by Stoltz to Lea Thompson's popular yet kind high school beauty we're usually conditioned by the genre to dislike just because she's the romantic rival for his affections opposite Masterson’s tomboy best friend who pines for Stoltz in secret, this film is clever in what it chooses to reveal to us when. A new and, in my eyes, vastly improved retelling of the same class clash teen romance at the heart of screenwriter Hughes and director Deutch's PRETTY IN PINK (which incidentally starred Koteas' future CRASH co-star James Spader as that film's bully), SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL is a work that makes you second guess the internal prejudice of your first impressions.