Overview:
Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.| Status: | Released (1986-02-28) |
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| Awards: | 1 win total |
| BoxOffice: | $40,471,663 |
| Screen: | John Hughes |
| Productions: | Paramount Pictures |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 21625: Molly Ringwald - Andie Walsh
- 5048: Harry Dean Stanton - Jack Walsh
- 69718: Jon Cryer - Philip F. "Duckie" Dale
- 8873: Annie Potts - Iona
- 13548: James Spader - Steff
- 37041: Andrew McCarthy - Blane McDonough
- 10380: Jim Haynie - Donnelly
Crews
- 32398: Michael Gore - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 3175: Richard Marks - Editor - Editing
- 7200: Lauren Shuler Donner - Producer - Production
- 11505: John Hughes - Screenplay - Writing
- 16300: Tak Fujimoto - Director of Photography - Camera
- 26502: Howard Deutch - Director - Directing
- 1384777: Jane Schwartz Jaffe - Associate Editor - Editing
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Reviews
John Chard
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You're ashamed to go out with me. Andie Walsh (Molly Ringwald) is different to most kids at school. Being solely raised by her unemployed father, Jack (Harry Dean Stanton), and dressing in hand made clothes, she's very much from the wrong side of the tracks. It's tough in school a ....
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Enjoyable enough teen rom-com from writer John Hughes, though, and this only after my first viewing, not a favorite of mine of his. Still, for the most part I liked the core cast and thought it had its moments. However, this is near the bottom of John Hughes' brilliant career in the ....
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The opening bars of the Psychedelic Furs' song are probably all that really lingers in the memory from this teenage romance; that and the cracking rendition of "Try a Little Tenderness" by the star of the film Jon Cryer's lovelorn "Duckie". The thrust of the plot revolves around the ....
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