Pretty in Pink
A poor girl must choose between the affections of her doting childhood sweetheart and a rich but sensitive playboy.
- Director: Howard Deutch
- Genre:Comedy / Drama / Romance
- Runtime:97 minutes
Cast
Molly Ringwald: Andie Walsh
Harry Dean Stanton: Jack Walsh
Jon Cryer : Duckie (Phil Dale)
Annie Potts : Iona
James Spader : Steff
Molly Ringwald stars as Andie Walsh, a poor but fashion-conscious New Wave girl who has a crush on one of the preppie rich boys in her school, Blane McDonough (Andrew McCarthy). When Andie and Blane try to get together, they encounter resistance from their respective social circles.
Andie lives on “the wrong side of the tracks” with her unemployed father (Harry Dean Stanton) who is struggling with depression after Andie’s mother abandoned the family some years before. Andie spends a lot of energy trying to help him to get a job. As they have very little money, Andie buys secondhand clothes and uses her sewing and fashion skills to create unique outifts for herself. She drives an old, beat-up, dusty rose-colored lowlight Karmann Ghia. Her best friend is Duckie Dale (Jon Cryer). Duckie has intense feelings for Andie, but plays it off as a joke in front of her. In school, she and Duckie are harassed by friends of Blane, the so-called “richie” kids Benny (Kate Vernon) and Steff (James Spader). Steff is attracted to Andie as well, but she knows he’s only after sex.
Andie works at TRAX, a New Wave music store in the Chinatown neighborhood of Chicago, managed by her older friend and mentor Iona (Annie Potts), whose quirky and unconventional dress sense is more influenced by her personal tastes than by her age group, and moans about her newly single life. Iona advises Andie to go to her senior prom despite not having a date. Blane and Andie talk for a brief moment as Blane buys an album. She indirectly discusses him with her friends at the local club, CATS.
Soon, Blane makes his move via chatting in the computer lab and Andie is smitten. Blane ventures out to the area at school where the punks, metalheads, and New Wavers hang out during lunch and after classes, and asks Andie on a date. Steff begins questioning why his best friend “was conversing with a mutant,” but Blane brushes him off. Read more
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