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Summary: i love Molly, Andrew, and Jon in this movie!!
Review: This movie was so cute. i loved it! Molly and Andrew make a cute CUTE couple! And Jon Cryer plays a really funny part. its a good movie for any girl out there! definately a "chik flik"! but you guys will like it too! i love 80's movies. some of my other favorites and the Breakfast Club and Fletch(with Chevy Chase). hope ya'll check this movie out those who havent seen it! and i hope you LOVE it as much as i did!!
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Summary: love of the 80's
Review: "Pretty in Pink," is a well told love story of teens in high-school. No teenage love film made in the 90's can compare to this witty, funny film that high-school students can relate to.
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Summary: A piece of the great 80's
Review: This romantic comedy was an 80's classic. Ringwald,McCarthy,Spader,Cryer etc were great.It was like the typical afterschool special all generation x'ers grew up watching but with a great soundtrack.Ringwald falls for a rich but nice guy in the movie and the rest is history.It reminded me of Sixteen Candles. To me the sequel is "Some Kind of Wonderful."
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Summary: It was pretty!
Review: This movie is soooo sweet. I cried during the entire movie. If you like romance, you'll love this.
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Summary: Brilliant and Enchanting!
Review: I adore Ringwald. She shows that it's really what's on the inside that counts!
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Summary: This is the classic story of poor girl meets rich boy.
Review: Pretty in Pink is one of my favorite movies. The story is timeless. I was 15 years old when the movie came out and now I can laugh and say "boy, have styles changed since than." I did love Andie's outfits because they were creative and funky. Molly Ringwald was so good in this movie. She showed true teenage angst. I remember when the movie came out someone said "if she's so poor how come she has a phone and a car?" Because she works and she's not made out to be super poor, she's more like lower middle class, but to the "Richies" anyone that doesn't look, dress or has a fancy, expensive car can seem poor to them. I like Jon Cryer, don't get me wrong but sometimes he can be annoying in this movie. Very whiny. I know he was hurt over Andie and Blane's relationship, but get over it. The rest of the cast was great.
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Summary: This was the best movie I have ever seen.
Review: I loved this movie!!!!!!
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Summary: A girl from the wrong side of the tracks and her life
Review: This movie set in the mid 80s era of brat-prack movies is a unique shining star. Molly Ringwald is Andie a girl from the wrong sides of the tracks who has romantic intrests from both sides of the spectrum; Duckie (Jon Cryer) who's puppy-dog love for her is both sweet and endearing to watch, and Blane (Andrew McCarthy) the rich guy who has everything going for him. What follows is Andie having to deal with this, the bitchy cheerleader type girls at school, her loving but dishonest father (Harry Dean Stanton) and through all this will she get an invatation to the prom? This is a great film, with both Blane, and Andie having to deal with their friends disagreeeing with their relationship. Steff (James Spader at one of his very best) Blane's best friend, who tries to make Blane try to decide between Andie and himself, when really he just wants his finger in the pie. Annie Potts as Iona, Andie's quirky older best friend is excellent and her weird and orginal costume changes throughout the movie are a highpoint. This is a emotionally raw film a rareity at the time it was made. If you ask me this should have swept the Oscar nominations with Molly Ringwald getting Best Actress, but hey regardless of the miss of Oscars watch this, it is a powerful film and a great piece of film making
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Summary: For mainstream--it's critical! Hughes' best ever!
Review: In the 1980's U.S., of course teen flicks were the rage, and who other than John Hughes would bring it to us? While Reaganism saturated politics and conservative notions of a "classless" society were rapidly being thrown about, Pretty in Pink arrived. Although all of Hughes' teen-angst films of the 80's dealt with class issues in the predominantly white high schools of the U.S., Pretty in Pink demonstrates the most critical viewpoint of class, consumerism, capitalism, and how they all affect the high school hierarchy of popularity in suburban and more small town schools in the U.S. in comparison to its contemporaries like Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, or 16 Candles. Pink's main character, Andi, is a young woman from a lower-working class, single parent household. She is academically robust, semi-financially independent, creative and thrifty, and assertive. She doesn't try to "play the game" of the "richies," as she calls them, and rather, she stands up for herself and her friends in the face of "benevolent" middle to upperclass school administrators (read: the principal), smitten and haughty female classmates (read: benny and her friends), and exploitive and egotistical male classmates (read: Stef). Her relationship with Blane is something which she takes with a grain of salt, and while she feels great affection for Blane, she is frank about her personal boundaries of acceptable behavior and treatment. Thus, from a feminist perspective, Andi is a welcome young female character in the 80's Hollywood theatre which usually provides female characters so constructed by dominant ideologies that they no longer differ from each other, and become a token image (for example, the main character in Girls Just Wanna Have Fun or Cindy's friends in the film Can't Buy Me Love). While the film is not immune from this tokenism, it offers definite progress in comparison to the aforementioned examples. The film also takes a different approach to the then increasing "phenomenon" of the single-parent household (which was/is usually headed by the mother), in the fact that Andi's father runs the household. While he struggles with his wife's abandonment, this seems to heavily influence his ambition to "find a job." While this issue is not awarded much complexity in the film, it is at least mentioned, and hopefully encourages viewers to critically discuss this situation outside of the film. For a mainstream film, Pretty in Pink offers many alternatives to the popular films so-far of 1998. Rather uninterrogated images of class differences and class oppression like those seen in Titanic or in Clueless provide a surface critique of class hierarchy and how it permeates youth cultures and high school "societies." I recommend Pretty in Pink with the utmost sincerity. While it proves problematic in certain areas, no film exists outside of power structures, culture, or oppression and it is our task as viewers to critically immerse ourselves in discussions of film and cinema. END
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Summary: Watch 16 Candles or The Breakfast Club, instead
Review: Pretty in Pink is truly one of the worst bratpack movies ever made. Whiny Molly Ringwald has by this time thoroughly worn out her welcome; her perpetual pout, her eye-rolling and her generally sour disposition are extremely grating, all the moreso because she is in virtually every scene! The only interesting thing about Ringwald's "performance" is her ever-changing haircolor (throughout the movie, her hair goes from strawberry blonde to dark auburn to nearly chartreuse back to strawberry blonde, and so on. At least SOMETHING changed; her expression never did!).Andrew McCarthy is the wimpiest "romantic hero" ever, and, like Molly, his expression never changes. "Must remain bland" was surely his mantra throughout filming. Jon Cryer plays "Ducky" (did YOU go to high school with anybody who had a nickname like that???) like a spastic goofball. James Spader is wasted in a one-note role as "The Mean Snobby Guy." There's no end to the talent wasted in this film: Annie Potts and Harry Dean Stanton are also squandered in thankless, my-character-only-exists-to-showcase-Molly-Ringwald roles. As if all that's not annoying enough, Molly's character is the richest "poor girl" ever, with her own lilac-colored Kharman Ghia, an endless supply of funky vintage dresses, petticoats, sweaters, granny boots, and hats (if you think she picked all that swag up at Salvation Army, you're crazy), and her own phone complete with answering machine (no big deal now, but it was in the '80s). The cherry on top is the fact that the dress Molly cobbles together and "triumphantly" wears to Prom is ugly. Ugly, ugly, UGLY. That's not just my opinion, either: I saw this dog in the theater, and people LAUGHED when she made her entrance. Bottom line: if you're in the mood for a bratpack movie, watch 16 Candles or Breakfast Club, instead.
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