Word: proms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong enough to declare his finer feelings and risk his friends' derision. So who comforts Andie? Why, her dear dilapidated dad. He's no Judge Hardy, but he can be counted on to give sympathy and take pity. And yes, love will find Andie Walsh, at the senior prom of her dreams...
...with the adolescent part of himself," Sheedy says. It's a golden touch. Who wouldn't grab the chance to remake one's adolescence, in which the geek in one's closet now has the swagger of fearless charm, and a rock symphony swells in the parking lot on prom night? "I think he's still trying to be popular at school," says Jon Cryer, who played Duckie, the geeky dervish in Pretty in Pink. "And more power to him. I mean, he wound up marrying a cheerleader (Nancy, his wife of 16 years...
...start old and get younger?" keens Iona (Annie Potts), a perky eccentric in her 30s who has never discarded the totems of a happily trashy youth: prom dress, beehive hairdo and the Association crooning Cherish. But there is enough sweet irony in her voice to suggest that she has looked into the face of her teenage pal Andie (Molly Ringwald) and seen just why the Fountain of Youth is laced with citric acid. Teenhood is the pits. Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment. Anguish over dates and grades streaks the first application of mascara. Clique rivalries make...
That's right, folks: Pretty in Pink really is about whether the rich boy will invite the poor girl to the senior prom. Though it is at pains to present high school as a class society in which the rich (in their preppy Miami Vice linens) already know how to use the tyranny of style to ostracize poor Andie and Duckie (in their junk-punk-funk handmades), at base the picture is Love Finds Andie Walsh. And when Stanton must play a Judge Hardy on the skids, the psychodrama can get awfully wet. But within this familiar format, Hughes creates...
TRAPPED IN NEW YORK'S Soho district, Paul Hackett is Desperately Seeking Sanity, encountering manic-depressive prom queens, time-warped cocktail waitresses, avenging ice-cream truck drivers and shaver-brandishing slam dancers around every corner. For Paul, the evening had begun innocently enough, running into Beautiful Stranger Marcie (Rosanna Arquette) at a mid-town diner as each pretended to enjoy a solitary meal. In no time at all, the two exchange phone numbers, and after checking the cable T.V. schedule for the evening, Paul decides to try his luck with the lady from uptown. Tempting him with the prospect...