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A great 80s movie

This is one of my all-time favorite movies. I've watched it over and over again and am glad to have found it at Amazon to purchase it. It is well acted. I love the interactions between all the characters. "Ducky" is hilarious. "Andy" is real and "Blane" shows us that peers can influence us in a sometimes negative way. This is one movie that I'll never tire of watching. It lets you know that it doesn't matter if you have money. It's being happy that counts. It brings back a lot of memories. You won't go wrong by purchasing this movie. Enjoy!

smart and funny

I was 17 when I saw PiP for the first time and I've never stop loving it. Even today film looks fresh and touchy. Molly was a simbol of 80's (cover of Times and Newsweek). Great music...

what a sweet movie!

Okay...like, I totally fell in love with this movie. Maybe because I have this strange obsession with Andrew McCarthy. I dunno, but this movie was great. It's funny and sad at times, but that's what makes a movie a good one. I think this, St. Elmo's Fire, and The Breakfast Club are my favs! I mean...speaking in terms of 80's movies!

Julie Sandusky, MI

This movie was the best! It really showed what it was like in the 80's. Molly Ringwald was wonderful a great date movie! I can't believe i finally found it at amazon.com!

i love Molly, Andrew, and Jon in this movie!!

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!!

love of the 80's

"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.

A piece of the great 80's

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."

It was pretty!

This movie is soooo sweet. I cried during the entire movie. If you like romance, you'll love this.

Brilliant and Enchanting!

I adore Ringwald. She shows that it's really what's on the inside that counts!

This is the classic story of poor girl meets rich boy.

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.

This was the best movie I have ever seen.

I loved this movie!!!!!!

A girl from the wrong side of the tracks and her life

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

For mainstream--it's critical! Hughes' best ever!

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

It's about time!

Well finally we are getting this movie on Dvd! I can't wait to check it out in all it's widescreen glory. I saw this movie in the theater when I was 10 years old and I loved it! I just swooned for Andrew McCarthy back then. Jon Cryer is excellent!! He makes me laugh so hard in this flick. "Blane?! His name is BLANE? That's not a name, it's a major appliance!" Yeah and uh what exactly kind of name is Ducky? LOL, awesome awesome movie. This is one of the examples of why of love 80s teen movies. God Bless John Hughes! :)

It's Great!

PRETTY IN PINK is one of my favorite movies. It combines love, comedy and relationships w/ both friends and family. Not only is Molly Ringwald a great actress, but there's Duckie too! He's halarious. Though I think the original ending would be more suitable (Andy ending up with Duckie rather than Blair), it still is a fabulous movie. I love it!

PRETTY IN PINK REVIEW:

Well first off read the paragraph at the top of this page!!! AND VOTE FOR A DVD EDITION!!! I'm "DYING" to see it on DVD because I'm sure it will include the original ending where Andie get's "Ducky" not Blake!!! And...The reason they changed the ending was because on preview screenings ppl booed at the ending because she ended up with Ducky!!! And I'm dying to see the one where she get's Ducky, so even if you don't like this movie or haven't seen it vote anyways, PLEASE!!! *THANKS* a TON!!!

Lol, the movies good for a teeny movie, the only thing that could be better is the ending. John Cryer(Ducky)is so cute and harlarious(also NOTE: he kinda looks like a duck!!!seriously!!!)Anyways...Its your basic girl get's dreamy looking guy...Not that she much cared for him, of course it would have been girl get's her best friend....Anyways...I'm sorry this prolly isn't helpfull at all!!!

But no really this movie is worth watching and if you liked Breakfast Club your bound to like this, or if you like ANY teeny bopper movies for that matter you'll love this!!!

God Bless ~Amy

great!

This film is beautiful, Andrew McCarthy is hot! I prefer Some Kind of Wonderful but this is just sweet!

Pretty In Pink!

I just saw this movie 4 the 1st time this weekend, I liked it a lot, it was on right after the movie sixteen candles, so it reminds me of that movie since the main girl is also in that movie too, anyway, this is a great movie. Its an older one about a girl who is poor and not very popular who has a popular rich guy crushing on her.

One heck of a good film!!!

This is one of my favorite 80's movies. The best scene is when Duckie is laying on his bed listening to The Smiths. (and if you watch in the record store you see a Smiths record too!)But enough of that.It's a good,fun movie with good music (New Order) in it and cool clothes.

Great characters in an enjoyable movie

Some interesting characters appear in this film based around the traditional American movie standby, the High School Prom. Who is taking whom, what will they wear, who loves whom, and who is whose true friend. This is about a group of teenagers, specifically one girl and her attempts to cop off with a rich boy. The insight into the American 'class system' will enlighten British viewers as there are closer comparisons with our own class system than might at first be obvious, although the American system seems to be based on money rather than anything else. Having said that, the 'can love exist between people from such different backgrounds' plot was hackneyed after Shakespeare did it with Romeo And Juliet, so by the time we get to 1984 we don't really care whether she gets him or the other guy. This is entertaining, yet examines the relationships of young-adulthood with a subtle intelligence. The sets, costumes, and music are very clever in that they evoke the 1950s whereas they firmly pinpoint the movie in the 1980s. Ringwald shows here that you don't need to be conventionally attractive to be a star