Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
Deutch has no discernible style; the scenes march ahead with only one development per scene, much like the worst in American television.
– Gene Siskel,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jun 2014
fresh:
When Molly Ringwald and Annie Potts are onscreen together, the movie is aglow. See Pretty In Pink or, years from now, you may suffer side effects from missing it.
– Jay Boyar,
Orlando Sentinel,
9 Jun 2014
rotten:
It's way too hackneyed for John Hughes. He's already shown us that he knows better.
– Rick Lyman,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
9 Jun 2014
fresh:
These kids have a bumpy ride, but this is one film that identifies with their passions instead of indulging them, giving us a perfect back-seat view of kids out cruising, not for kicks but for a hard-earned sense of pride.
– Patrick Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jun 2014
fresh:
First-Timer Howard Deutch is a nice surprise too. His precise, unexploitative direction is sympathetic to the awkward pauses in teen talk, to the mopery of first love, to the suicidal bravado of words spoken in heat.