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Pretty in Pink (1986)
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The era of Molly Ringwald's profitable collaboration with writer-producer-director John Hughes (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) was at its peak with this 1986 film (directed by Howard Deutch but in every sense part of the developing Hughes empire). Ringwald plays a high school girl on the budget side of the tracks, living with her warm and loving father (Harry Dean Stanton) and usually accompanied by her insecure best friend (Jon Cryer). When a wealthy but well-meaning boy (Andrew McCarthy) asks her out, her perspective is overturned and Cryer's character is threatened. As was the case in the mid-'80s, Hughes (who wrote...
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Pretty in Pink Movie Review by Jarrod  (9/30/2007) |
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Maybe I am a soft touch, but I have always had an affection for 'Pretty in Pink', which I think is the best John Hughes movie, even though I never got caught up in the whole 80s teen flick craze, where this film emerged, along with The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, all with Molly Ringwald, an icon of her time, even...
(complete Pretty in Pink review by Jarrod)
| Pretty in Pink Movie Review by Zara (1/25/2007) |
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When I was in junior high, my dad recorded a few of my favorite movies onto an extended play VHS tape. I watched that tape so many times that it eventually the picture began to flip and the audio showed signs of wear. One of the movies on it was PRETTY IN PINK.
Not quite containing the punch of THE BREAKFAST CLUB, this...
(complete Pretty in Pink review by Zara)
Oh Duckie, how we love you.
Not the best of the John Hughes 80's teen flicks, but good nonetheless.
Andrew McCarthy is terribly sexy with his fabulous puffy hair, James Spader is devastatingly sexy as the bad rich boy, and then there is Duckie.
Molly Ringwald is at her most indie, thrift shop chic, she is so above...
(complete Pretty in Pink review by Jessica Film Junkie)
| Pretty in Pink Movie Review by Megan (3/1/2007) |
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This is a tried and true movie formula. Girl likes boy, girl isn't cool enough for boy, boy sees her beauty by end of movie. And teenaged girls around the world have survived their teenaged angst, pimples, badly fitted bras and high school because of movies like this. Gave them hope that the captin of the football team may...
(complete Pretty in Pink review by Megan)
| Pretty in Pink Movie Review by carrie (2/11/2007) |
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i love all the 80's films...the breakfast club, some kind of wonderful ,saint elmos fire, class,lucas,the lost boys, etc.
what i loved most about pretty in pink , is that i could totally identify with the main character . also, i just fell in love with john cryer's character "ducky", because he was so lovable and funny...
(complete Pretty in Pink review by carrie)
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