Secret Admirer

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Secret Admirer
Secret Admirer movie poster
Directed by	David Greenwalt
Produced by	Jim Kouf Stephen J. Roth
Written by	David Greenwalt
Starring	C. Thomas Howell Kelly Preston Lori Loughlin Fred Ward Leigh Taylor-Young Corey Haim Dee Wallace-Stone Cliff De Young
Music by	Jan Hammer
Cinematography	Victor J. Kemper
Editing by	Dennis Virkler
Distributed by	Orion Pictures
Release date(s)	3 April 1985 (premiere)
Running time	102 min.
Language	English
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Secret Admirer is comedy film directed by David Greenwalt, released in 1985. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston and Fred Ward.

Genres: Romantic comedy

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On the last day before summer vacations Michael receives a glowing, but anonymous, love-letter. He suspects, or better: hopes, it's from Deborah, the girl he's after since a while, but who dates college students only. However she shows him a cold shoulder again. So his and her best friend Toni advises him to write her an anonymous letter in return. However these letters get in the wrong hands and cause lots of confusion in their families, until it's revealed, who wrote which letter to whom.

[edit] Synopsis

Produced at the height of the teen sex comedy cinema craze in the mid-1980s, Secret Admirer (1985) was the directorial debut of David Greenwalt, who would later move from screwball comedy to horror with the television series The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. C. Thomas Howell stars as Michael Ryan, a high school student who receives an anonymous love note in his locker. Hoping that it's from Deborah Ann Fimple (Kelly Preston), a gorgeous but air-headed classmate who only dates college boys, Michael hatches a scheme with Toni (Lori Loughlin), who is friendly with both him and Deborah, to write her back. What Michael doesn't know, however is that the first letter was really from Toni, who has more than friendship in mind. In the meantime, the unsigned missives fall into the wrong hands, leading Michael's mother, Connie (Dee Wallace-Stone) to believe that her husband George (Cliff De Young) is having an affair with his night school teacher, Elizabeth (Leigh Taylor-Young), who is none other than Deborah's mother. George had better watch his back, however, as Elizabeth's husband is Lieutenant Lou Fimple (Fred Ward), a tough cop who's having a very bad week. As the romantic complications pile up, Toni becomes Michael's ~Cyrano de Bergerac, penning his letters but pining for him as he gets closer to winning Deborah over.