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Pretty in Pink

November 2022

  • The soundtrack to Pretty in Pink gave the Psychedelic Furs a huge hit in 1986.

    The power of music in John Hughes films: ‘When you hear those songs you see those moments’

    The director’s movies provided an intense emotive soundtrack to teenagers’ lives. A new box set collects tracks from his best-loved films, by artists such as Simple Minds, the Smiths and OMD

July 2021

  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    The dweeb and the hot girl: Matt Hancock’s affair belongs to an 80s movie

    Hadley Freeman
    Who knows, perhaps Hancock’s entire career was just a ploy to entice his university crush

August 2018

  • Winona Ryder, second from right, as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers (1988).

    Thanks be to Heathers – a film that helped make me who I am

    Hanna Flint
  • Christian Slater and Winona Ryder

    The legacy of Heathers 30 years on: 'Donald Trump is like a big Heather'

April 2018

  • Teenage dreams: the soulful phenomenon of coming of age films

    The best coming of age films
    'When you grow up your heart dies': how the coming-of-age film got smart

    From Pretty in Pink to Dirty Dancing and Say Anything - Hadley Freeman describes the emotions that got her hooked on films about growing up
  • The Breakfast Club, 1985. Star Molly Ringwald has called out the film’s director for the dubious sexual politics the film normalised

    Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #MeToo

    Molly Ringwald’s reappraisal of The Breakfast Club has thrown an uneasy light on other 80s classics, with their casual treatment of rape and abuse, dodgy sexual politics and breezy paedophilia. We look at 10 of the worst with fresh eyes
  • The Breakfast Club was one of the 80s films that propelled Molly Ringwald to stardom.

    Molly Ringwald says The Breakfast Club is troubling in #MeToo era

    Actor who starred in popular 1980s film advocates critical stance towards art of past

16 September 2017

  • Harry Dean Stanton dies aged 91 – video obituary

    Cult American actor Harry Dean Stanton has died aged 91 in an LA hospital on Friday
  • Harry Dean Stanton pictured at home in Los Angeles in 2015.

    Harry Dean Stanton, cult American actor, dies aged 91

    Prolific character actor, who appeared in scores of films including Paris, Texas, Alien, Repo Man and The Straight Story, died in an LA hospital on Friday
  • ALIEN 1979 ywine film with Harry Dean Stanton as Brett who a close encounter with the alien aboard the spaceship

    A life in pictures – Harry Dean Stanton

    The cult actor has died at the age of 91. The prolific and much-loved character actor featured in many classic indies and was a firm favourite of David Lynch

March 2016

  • Pretty In Pink.

    Pretty in Pink 30 years on: a class war built with clothes

    From Princess Diana hair to the Tories at the weekend look, John Hughes’ film used fashion to illustrate the divisions between the characters

November 2014

  • Jon Cryer and Molly Ringwald in a film still from 1986's Pretty In Pink.

    Clip joint
    Clip joint: high school proms

    Tshepo Mokoena picks some of the best prom film scenes. Which would top your own list?

July 2014

  • Andie (Molly Ringwald), Blane (Andrew McCarthy) and Duckie (Jon Cryer) in Pretty in Pink.

    Role model
    Why I'd like to be ... Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink

    Together with John Hughes, Molly Ringwald created a character that is plain and beautiful, confident and insecure, wise and foolish – a credible teenager, in other words, but one who has learned some crucial life lessons

October 2012

  • Andrew McCarthy

    Andrew McCarthy: from 80s heart-throb to travel writer

    He was the Brat Pack actor who oozed charm as the perfect boyfriend in films such as Pretty in Pink and St Elmo's Fire. But in reality he was a celebrity-shy loner who has turned to travel writing to find himself

August 2009

  • Breakfast Club director John Hughes: 'He had a massive impact on cinema'

    From Pretty in Pink to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, John Hughes's movies came to define a generation in the 1980s. Paul MacInnes and Andrew Pulver discuss his legacy

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