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Secret Admirer (1985)

Secret Admirer poster
Directed by
David Greenwalt
Genre
romantic comedy, teen film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 201 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A high school student receives an unsigned love letter and tries to figure out who sent it. Meanwhile, the letter gets passed around and causes a series of mix-ups among his friends and family.

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What happens

Secret Admirer is a 1985 American teen romantic comedy film co-written and directed by David Greenwalt in his feature film directorial debut, and starring C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Kelly Preston, and Fred Ward. The original music score was composed by Jan Hammer. The film was produced at the height of the teen sex comedy cinema craze in the mid-1980s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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