Directed by Howard Duetch, Written and Produced by John Hughes
| Starring: | Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy, Harry Dean Stanton, Annie Potts, Margaret Colin |
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Directed by Howard Duetch, Written and Produced by John Hughes
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Our Cinderella heroine lives on the wrong side of the tracks and provides moral support for her under-achieving father, while rejecting the contempt of her rich classmates with the help of life-long friend and admirer Jon, aka the Duckman.
But there`s one rich boy who overlooks class differences and seems to like our poor little princess for the special qualities he sees in her: Andrew begins to flirt with our gal, to the disgust of his rich, supercilious friend James, who has previously been rejected by the virtuous Molly.
Much confusion results amid all the usual high school cr*p, and the class war which soon develops, thanks to James and his rich allies. Andrew, weak as he is, begs out on his prom date with Molly, causing her to cry- it`s not the first time for her, nor will it be the last.
Her true friend, Annie, gives her the girl power to go to the prom on her own, just because she has the right to do so, and for no other reason.
When she arrives at the prom in her wonderful, home-made pink prom dress, guess who`s there to greet her?
That`s right, it`s Duckie! And he`s dressed to the nines!
They go inside together, but when she sees Andrew sitting alone and miserable, even the Duckman insists that she go to him and have a ball.
Andrew and Molly dance the night away, James be damned.
Trivia: Cameos by Kristy Swanson and Dweezil Zappa. Andrew and Molly would be reunited in an obscure 1988 movie Fresh Horses, co-starring Molly Hagan (Some Kind of Wonderful) and Ben Stiller (Reality Bites). Also, Molly once dated the leader of the Rave Ups, the band featured in a club scene with her, Annie and Jon. (Courtesy of IMDB-see Trivia)
Real Good Trivia: YMP once saw this very fine film on Dinner and a Movie with Paul and Annabelle on TNT, and Jon himself was a guest. He said the original ending had Duckie and Molly staying together the whole night of the prom, to the tune of David Bowie`s Heroes, but her illness prevented some of their required dancing scenes from being filmed right away, and further reflection caused John Hughes to change the finale to avoid class implications! YMP had always thought the original ending seemed artificial, but accepted it as we all did since the film was released. It may be hard to believe, but Jon actually had a few movie stills of he and St. Molly dancing at the Prom to prove his point.
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