Review – Pretty in Pink

Here’s a mix of the dated awfulness of the 1980s and the timeless awfulness of class-conscious romance. A poor girl (Molly Ringwald in her definitive role) falls in love with a rich boy (Andrew McCarthy) but suffers abuse from his snobby friends. Though Howard Deutch directed, this is very much a creature of writer slash producer John Hughes. If Hughes had gotten the ending he wanted rather than the one that tested well with audiences, perhaps this would have been a better movie. But then again, perhaps not. Mildly amusing