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Teamed with Hughes for the third time, Molly Ringwald is herself growing as an actress, lending Pink a solid emotional center that largely boils down to making the audience care about her." [28] Pauline Kael of The New Yorker wrote that Ringwald "carries the movie, though she has nothing particularly interesting to do or say," and called the ...
- $40.5 million (US)
- Michael Gore
- $9 million
- Lauren Shuler
Mar 3, 2021 · Molly Ringwald Looks Back on Pretty in Pink, 35 Years Later. By Keaton Bell. March 3, 2021. Andrew McCarthy, Molly Ringwald, and Jon Cryer in 1986’s Pretty in Pink. Photo:...
- Keaton Bell
Pretty in Pink: Directed by Howard Deutch. With Molly Ringwald, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts. A poor girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich but sensitive playboy.
- Howard Deutch
- 2 min
- 1 min
- Drew Mackie
- It’s one of those cult films that was a success from the get-go. With a lot of films that gain obsessive followings, they start small and grow big long after they've ended their theatrical run.
- The role of Andie was written specifically for Molly Ringwald. Pretty in Pink was Ringwald's third collaboration with John Hughes, following Sixteen Candles in 1984 and The Breakfast Club in 1985.
- Jon Cryer was not the first choice to play Duckie, however. Fresh off his turn as the super brain in The Breakfast Club, which was released one year earlier, Anthony Michael Hall was worried about being typecast and turned down the role of Duckie even though it was written specifically for him.
- And the role of Iona could have been played by Anjelica Huston. Allegedly Huston was offered the part of Andie's cool girl mentor but opted not to take it.
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Feb 15, 2021 · Full credit also must go to Molly Ringwald, who anchors the film as Andie, a working class girl with a killer taste in new wave music and vintage clothes, as well as an intense longing for...
