Editing Can't Hardly Wait (section)

==Concept==
The story takes place at a [[secondary school|high school]] graduation party in the late 1990s and in a style much like that of the high school movies of the 1980s. The idea of setting most of the movie at a party was based primarily on concerns to keep production costs low and was also inspired by the movies of [[John Hughes (filmmaker)|John Hughes]] and the party scene in ''[[Say Anything...]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/12/back-to-the-party-15-things-you-didnt-know-about-cant-hardly-wait/ |title=Back to the Party: 15 Things You Didn't Know About Can't Hardly Wait |last=Rothman |first=Lily |date=2013-06-12 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=2022-11-07 |archive-date=2022-11-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107234848/https://entertainment.time.com/2013/06/12/back-to-the-party-15-things-you-didnt-know-about-cant-hardly-wait/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="oral history"/>

The film takes its name from [[The Replacements (band)|The Replacements]]' song of the same title,{{citation needed|date=May 2023}} from their 1987 album ''[[Pleased to Meet Me]]'', which plays over the film's closing credits.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}