Audaciously staged as a little - more - than - real - time dramatization of a single night's house party, the air humid with that special,
pheromone - drenched mist of booze and sweat and young
sex and aspirations towards same, Can't Hardly Wait is a reminder of the pop - cultural moment when Brad and Gwyneth were the hot celebrity couple, Jennifer Love Hewitt was an up - and - comer, nobody had ever heard of Selma Blair or Lauren Ambrose, and the
likes of Smash Mouth and Eve 6 were planting hit singles on MTV and the radio.