Eight Days a Week (1999)

Perfect cast and a good story

Brilliant and touching

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Terribly stunted dialog that doesn't ring true (a common problem with the director as evidenced in 100 Girls, 100 women, etcetera) mar a obscure teen comedy that already has a hackneyed premise to begin with. Peter is so in lust with Erica (not for her brain mind you, more for the fact that she never wears a bra & likes to get her white shirt wet) that he chooses to pursue her by becoming a stalker and camping out in front of the house day and night. Which everyone (except himself, his slight-off grandfather, and Erica's ultra-religious parents) pretty rightly thinks is a bad idea. The film has it's moments but they are very few and far between.Keri Russell has nothing to do with the character except look pretty (remember this was back before she had the outlandishly awful idea to cut her hair) Furthermore she's so vapid and dull that one wonders why Peter (who rags on her equally blank-slate of a boyfriend) would go through the trouble in the first place. I'm not even get started on his lame best friend who's the same tired 'wacky' character that's seen in pretty much every single teen movie these days. Davis of course wouldn't learn his lesson and make an equally, if not more so, 'best friend' in his abysmal "Monster Man" My Grade: D+

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.

I don't know what to say. I woke up one Sunday morning, and my roommate yelled at me to watch it with him. I'm glad I did. It was fantastic.Some criticize the director of not knowing what teens think about, and that he's out of touch with the youth. Dubious. In my high school years, my friends and I made Raquel Welch and Julie Newmar as our mascots, and had frequent debates over who was the best James Bond. It reminded me of high school, and more specifically my Senior year.In conclusion, this movie was fantastic, and reminded me a lot of better days. I highly suggest this movie for anyone. I'd feel comfortable watching this with my parents. It's just a shame that it's so hard to find.

I HATE "teenage sex comedies" with a passion! But when I found this movie while flipping channels on cable, I immediately had to run out and rent the VHS. This is NOT your normal "teenage sex comedy!" The writing is much too sophisticated, and I would venture to guess many of jokes are even over the heads of your average teenager.All those critics who haphazardly dumped this one in with the "Porky's genre" really missed the boat.