Secret Admirer (1985)
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Wikidata Q3477220, film, IMDb tt0089981, TMDB 24742: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Lori Loughlin as actor (‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins); 1 more episode agrees.
What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.
Who talked about it
The Rewatchables
Came from
What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.
No line says it drew on another film or person.
Led to
What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.
No line says another film or person drew on it.
Connected to
Mean Girls: 1 line theme ×1
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theme (trope):
Secret Admirer → Mean Girls.
The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek.
“Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
The Ice Storm: 1 line contrast ×1
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contrast (contrast):
Secret Admirer → The Ice Storm.
Secret Admirer is a teen movie that turns into couples with marital issues, like The Ice Storm.
“There's Secret Admirer, which is a combination teen movie, but it's also like the ice storm.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
Where it came up
- compared in The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt, first at 0:05:24, 1 time
- anecdote in The Rewatchables · 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris, first at 1:17:38, 1 time
- anecdote in The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins, first at 0:20:17, 1 time
What was said about it, by kind
contrast (1)
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contrast (contrast):
Secret Admirer → The Ice Storm.
Secret Admirer is a teen movie that turns into couples with marital issues, like The Ice Storm.
“There's Secret Admirer, which is a combination teen movie, but it's also like the ice storm.”
The Rewatchables · ‘Weird Science’ With Bill Simmons and Kyle Brandt · 0:05:24 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
theme (1)
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theme (trope):
Secret Admirer → Mean Girls.
The trope that the guy does not notice his hot friend until late recurs in Secret Admirer and Dawson's Creek.
“Secret admirer has Lori Laughlin, C. Thomas Howes, in love with Kelly Preston”
The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:20:17 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
Fun items about it
None.
Who the speakers said made it
As said on the shows, not checked against the real credits.
- Lori Loughlin: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
- C. Thomas Howell: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
- Kelly Preston: actor (The Rewatchables, ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins)
- Fred Ward: actor (The Rewatchables, 'The Player' With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Wesley Morris)