Eight Days a Week

Many a lovesick young man has threatened to camp out by a girl's front door, but one guy actually tries it in this alternately sweet and tasteless romantic comedy. Peter (Josh Schaefer) is a good-natured but socially inept young man who is madly in love with Erica (Keri Russell), the sweet and ...more

This amusing little 1997 indie prefigured the sweet-but-gross teen formula of American Pie, but it adds a dose of laconic quirkiness and even a bit of a Rear Window riff. Josh Schaefer embodies the perfect combination of puppy-dog adorability and wistful nerdiness as Peter, the lovestruck protagonist, while R.D. Robb embraces his orgasm-obsessed sidekick character with a knowing humor that's missing from most such outré teen material. Keri Russell brings the exact same qualities to her pert, ...more