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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hughes' original script had a different ending than the script he shot, one in which Molly Ringwald's character ended up with Duckie, her geeky best friend. Byrne Fields liked that ending better. She saw the movie with her dad, who was touched by the strong father-daughter relationship. Hughes liked that. He told her he was happy to have made a movie that brought people together. With teenagers, that's not an easy thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes' High School Pen Pal | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...Hughes showed teenagers that light, with a rose-tinted glow. His Molly trilogy - Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink, all starring actual teen Molly Ringwald - mined the emotional convulsions that make every kid feel he or she is the first lonely explorer on the dark side of the moon. In his mid-30s, Hughes got spookily in sync with the swooning narcissism of adolescence: that teachers are torturers; that parents are sweet but don't quite understand; that friends and lovers are two distinct species, one domestic, one alien; that I feel all these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...Drillbit Taylor under the pseudonym Edmond Dantes (taken from The Count of Monte Cristo). In his prime he was known for writing 74 script pages in a night and rarely taking more than five days to complete a first draft. (Read a 1986 TIME cover story on Molly Ringwald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Hughes, Chronicler of '80s Teens, Dies | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...twee inclinations contrast with the distortion of guitars and vocals. The sweetness of the melodies contrast, at times, with the subtle and the plaintively morose lyrics. “A Teenager in Love” would be at home in any John Hughes movie, a fitting soundtrack to Molly Ringwald eyeing a love interest across the gymnasium at a crowded school dance. It comes as a surprise, to say the least, when the affected, muttered lyrics become clear: “And if you made a stand / I’d stand with...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...pregnant after a band camp fling with playboy drummer Ricky Underwood and has to deal with embarrassment at school, problems with friends and family, and a relationship with her new boyfriend Ben Boykewich. On top of all that, her dad and mom (played by former teen movie icon Molly Ringwald) are splitting up. Other characters include Adrian, Ricky’s skanky and surprisingly booksmart girlfriend; Henry and Alice, Ben’s best friends who continue to have sex so they can “get it right” despite their recent breakup; Marc Molina, the hip school...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TV Drama "Secret Life" a Bundle of Joy, Stupidity | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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