“Pretty in Pink” was released today in ‘86. John Hughes finest work

I hated ducky.. Like the actor, hated the character..

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I enjoyed Pretty in Pink much better than 16 Candles.

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The Breakfast Club is a better movie than both.

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The Breakfast Club is a better movie than both.

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Hands down, most definitely!

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I enjoyed Pretty in Pink much better than 16 Candles. I know it’s an unpopular opinion.

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So did everyone else.

The original script had Molly Ringwald’s character end up with Ducky. The women in the test audiences wanted her to end up with Andrew McCarthy, so Hughes re-wrote the ending.

Not to be deterred, Hughes rewrote the script, flipped the genders, had the lead character end up with the friend instead of the more popular love interest like he wanted to in the first place, and called it Some Kind of Wonderful. Nobody minded this time.

Ringwald’s refusal to take the Mary Stuart Masterson role in that film is the reason she never worked for Hughes again.

It was always funny to us that he wore a casual suit to school and smoked in the school hallways, never going to class. I guess that was the definition of rich back then.



But Duckie drags the movie down...in fact the parody of him in Not Another Teen Movie is great because its so annoying.

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The Breakfast Club is a better movie than both.

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This is the correct answer.

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The Breakfast Club is a better movie than both.

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Planes Trains and Automobiles tops them all.

Never understood the big deal with Molly Ringwald.

She wasn't hot. (Which actually worked somewhat in Sixteen Candles)

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Never understood the big deal with Molly Ringwald.

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She was proto-Julia Roberts, a chick who is decent enough looking to play the lead but not so pretty that she threatened other women.