The 1986 romantic comedy Pretty in Pink turns 30 this year. Those who werent around to live through the days of big shoulder pads and the perfectly-captured teen love angst of mid-1980s era John Hughes films can catch this classic from his repertoire when it hits select theaters nationwide next month. Those that saw it the first time around can wax nostalgic about the wonders of Dippity-Do in maintaining budge-proof high coifs, perhaps think of ones own questionable teen love choicesand revisit one of the 30 Greatest Rock & Roll Movie Moments.
In Pretty in Pink,Molly Ringwald stars as Andie, the outsider teen who falls for one of the rich kids, Blane, played by Andrew McCarthy. Meanwhile, Andies sidekick Duckie, played by Jon Cryer, wants to be more than just friends (check out Cryer recently reviving Duckiesfamous dance scene during The Late Late Show). James Spader plays the snobby Steff, whos quite keen on enforcing their suburban Chicago high schools pecking order. Can Andie and Blanes star-crossed love weather the storm of disrupting a high school caste system? To find out, or revisit the plot, the movie hits big screens just in time for Valentines Day and its also screening on February 17th. The film was originally released on February 28th, 1986.
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Beyond its humorous and often accurate portrayal of high school crushing-out life, Pretty in Pinks soundtrack made Rolling Stones The Greatest Soundtracks of All Timewith Hughes nicely-curated new wave picks ratcheting up all of the emo taking placeon screen.
Tickets are available through Fathom Events, which also handled the 25th anniversary re-release of Hughes Home Alone. As theChicago Tribunereports,the 30th anniversary edition ofPretty in Pinkis expected to include behind-the-scenes footage. According to a publicist for the re-release, thecast discusses the shooting of an alternate ending in the bonus footage. Filmmaker Hughes died in 2009.