Pretty in Pink (1986)

People are voting emotionally.

just watch it!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

I never watched this movie in the 80's. Lol or ever tell now 2018 cause Amazon had it on sell. As an Amazon Prime customer, Roseanne better come back on Amazon. This movie is average, kinda like Empire Records in the 90's. I don't need to watch this movie again.

Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is a high school senior from a poor family same as her unrelenting admirer Duckie (Jon Cryer). She takes care of her tired father Jack (Harry Dean Stanton). She works at the record store Trax with mentor Iona (Annie Potts). Preppy rich Blane McDonough (Andrew McCarthy) is taken with the unusual Andie. Benny Hanson (Kate Vernon) is the mean girl and her boyfriend Steff McKee (James Spader) is a sleazy womanizer. Iona keeps pushing for Andie to go to the prom and Blane just might want to be her date despite pressure from his friends.This is a Howard Deutch-John Hughes 80's teen classic. The basic story is very formulaic with the poor girl and the rich boy. The young rising stars are what makes this adorable and compelling. Molly Ringwald is simply the IT girl of the era and the audience roots for her no matter what. She really projects her emotions. Jon Cryer is also adorable as Duckie and Andrew McCarthy is pretty. The music is good and who could forget about Duckie dancing. It may follow a familiar formula but they don't make them like this anymore.

I usually take to John Hughes movies pretty well, but "Pretty in Pink" was strangely flat for me. Part of the reason is that I saw "Some Kind of Wonderful" first (which, despite its faults, is much more effective in its pursuits), this is also a fairly lackluster cast, with Annie Potts being the only real standout (although, the ladies' room scene was some genuinely funny Jon Cryer). But that ending . . . everything points to Andie ending up with Duckie. The way the story moves, everything, it's a foregone conclusion. We know how this will shake out. Yet it goes the other way, and for no good reason. In a movie like this, that's a nonsensical rug-pull. It kinda helps when you know the behind-the-scenes reason for this, but it's still a fumble.5/10

As someone who went through her teenage years in the new millennium, Pretty in Pink provided a glimpse of what it was like being a teen in the '80s and yet was a movie I could identify with. It was about a working class girl (and scholarship recipient) Andie who attends an elite high school. The dividing lines between rich and poor are clearly drawn, with the two groups hanging out in different parts of the school compound and excluding each other from their social events. So when Andie starts dating Blane, a rich preppy boy who despite his background is "not like the others", the couple face opposition from their friends, not least Duckie, Andie's best friend who's had a crush on her for years. While he too is a rich kid, he is ostracised by them for his dorky ways. While the themes of overcoming social barriers and girl-chooses-between- her-crush-and-best-friend have been portrayed numerous times in books and films (be it singly or in combination), this is one of the few that struck a chord - great acting, likable and realistic characters, excellent script. While the ending surprised me, I wholeheartedly approve of it.I also really liked this movie for its portrayal of non-romantic relationships. The movie is titled 'Pretty in Pink' because the climax takes place at senior prom, where Andie shows up in a pink dress which she designed and sewed from pieces given to her by two important people in her life. The first is her manager from the music store she works at part-time, Iona, an older sister figure to Andie through the ups and downs of the relationship. Then there's her dad, who despite his failings as a provider, is loving and supportive. To me, these scenes were important as they enabled us to see Andie as a complete person, to see that she's so much more than the object of affection of two boys. The only thing that marred my enjoyment was how ugly and unflattering the pink prom dress turned out! Other than that, I think Pretty in Pink is one of the best of its genre (teenage rom-com)! Great soundtrack too, though I couldn't really identify with the music.