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Pretty In Pink [1986]
from Paramount Home Entertainment
starring Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, James Spader
directed by Howard Deutch

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

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 the script and produced the film) brought his special feel for the cross-currents of adolescent life to this story. In its very commercial way, it is an honest, entertaining piece about growing pains. The attractive supporting cast (many of whom are much better known now) does a terrific job, and Ringwald and Cryer have excellent chemistry. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• My Favourite Teen Movie!!
  I adore this movie! I first saw it about 17 years ago when I was 15. I was staying in my best friends house and we rented out this movie because we both had a crush on Andrew McCarthy! Anyway we watched it three times in 24 hours!!
  I can't tell you why I loved it so much, but I think I could relate to Andie (Molly Ringwald's character) at the time because I liked to be my own person, not a clone. One of the main reasons that I love this movie is DUCKIE! I love him, yes I fancied Andrew McCarthy at... more info

• A Big-Hearted and Enjoyable Teen Romance
  This is one of those very rare things, a teen romance movie which has a wonderfully sincere and genuine heart at it's centre. A young woman named Andie is it's main character, a high school senior who comes from an underprivileged background. Her father is superbly played by Harry Dean Stanton.
  Andie is convincingly played by Molly Ringwald, and the film is charming, subtle, and lacking the kind of knowing, worldly-wise scripts which are characteristic of teen romance movies of the twenty-first... more info

• I love the eighties!
  I just bought this on dvd and i cant stop watching it it brings back memories of when i watched it when i was growing up i am now a 37 yr old mum,but i still love it!!!!The soundtrack is brilliant and Duckies dance to Otis Reddings" Try A Little Tenderness" is classic! Anyway get this dvd if your a girlie and you like a slushy movie.

• I want to be a Duckette!
  This is one of those films which I have a habit of remembering as being better than it actually is. This is due to the rose-tinted spectacles I wear when it comes to the 1980's, to the charm of the actors and to the wonderfully awful dress sense and hairdos (Any film which contains a reversable jumper and back-combed hair gets my vote). However, I struggle to get past the part where those two gorgeous dresses are chopped up.
  Not the greatest story but this is an entertaining piece of Brat Pack history... more info

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