Amazon.com video review:
The era of Molly Ringwald's profitable collaboration with
writer-producer-director John Hughes (Sixteen Candles,
The Breakfast
Club) was at its peak with this 1986 film (directed by Howard
Deutch but in every sense part of the developing Hughes
empire). Ringwald plays a high school girl on the budget side of the
tracks, living with her warm and loving father (Harry Dean Stanton)
and usually accompanied by her insecure best friend (Jon Cryer). When
a wealthy but well-meaning boy (Andrew McCarthy) asks her out, her
perspective is overturned and Cryer's character is threatened. As was
the case in the mid-'80s, Hughes (who wrote the script and produced
the film) brought his special feel for the cross-currents of
adolescent life to this story. In its very commercial way, it is an
honest, entertaining piece about growing pains. The attractive
supporting cast (many of whom are much better known now) does a
terrific job, and Ringwald and Cryer have excellent
chemistry. --Tom Keogh
