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Did anybody else love those Molly Ringwald films in the Eighties?

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emkana · 13/06/2006 21:47

I particularly liked Pretty in Pink.
But also Breakfast Club.
And other films of the same mould, not necessarily all with Molly Ringwald in them.
Whatever happened to her anyway?

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tribpot · 14/06/2006 21:40

Crushes of the eighties? John C is still one of mine, yummy!

SleepyJess · 14/06/2006 21:41

I loved Maybe Baby (since re-named something else because some other recent crappy film came out with that name). It made me SOOOO broody that I had to have one of my own.. but managed to hang on until I was 19 to get pregnant. (I got married first and everything! Grin) Result of broody feeling induced by Miss Ringwald et al will be 14 next month.. :)

foxinsocks · 14/06/2006 21:42

Did you ever see Better off Dead (with John Cusack)? that used to make me lol when I was younger.

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emkana · 14/06/2006 21:44

Quick aside to tribpot: I have e/mailed you! Smile

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emkana · 14/06/2006 21:45

Ooops, just spotted your e/mail! Thanks, will read now!

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sfxmum · 14/06/2006 21:45

oh yes molly darling pretty in pink with that great song and loved sixteen candles

but one of my favourites was a french film 'la boum' only one i have not watched since, probably thankfully

does anyone know that one?

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emkana · 14/06/2006 21:50

I watched La Boum about a hundred times when I was young... loved it.

I wonder what I would make of it if I saw it now!

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marthamoo · 14/06/2006 21:51

Loved the Breakfast Club - it was on TV really late one night recently and I thought "I am so not going to watch this" - was still there at about 2am.

Pretty in Pink...she picks the wrong guy! And...she takes two perfectly acceptable dresses and merges them into a hideous, Bananarama-meets-Cyndi-Lauper-by-way-of-Desperately-Seeking-Susan-80s-creation. Should have been called Minging in Pink.

Desperately Seeking Susan - now that's a good 80s film Grin

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emkana · 14/06/2006 21:54

I read on the Internet Movie Database that originally John Hughes intended the Molly Ringwald character to end up with Ducky, not the Andrew McCarthy character. But then they changed it so it wouldn't leave the impression that rich and poor people can never find a happy ending together, or something.

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marthamoo · 14/06/2006 21:55

They were never going to stay together, were they, though? Bet she ended up with Ducky in the end...

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emkana · 14/06/2006 21:56

I think you're right! Smile

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handlemecarefully · 14/06/2006 21:56

Yep loved the films and another Andrew McCarthy fan! Wonderful escapist films. Ooooh it takes me back...

sfxmum · 14/06/2006 21:57

was wildly excited when i saw sophie marceau in a bond movie i was once dragged to, kept thinking about 'that' movieGrin

browniechick · 14/06/2006 21:57

Saw this and had to post - The Outsiders that was a good film, had lots of the scrummy brat pack - and made me cry to boot!
Anyone else remember this, or is it just me?! Grin
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marthamoo · 14/06/2006 21:58

What were the cowboy ones? With the gorgeous Kiefer? Oh, it's gone...there were two. Bad Boys? No...God my brain...

marthamoo · 14/06/2006 21:59

Young Guns. I remembered. There's life in the old grey cells yet.

Loved those films.

bettythebuilder · 14/06/2006 22:01

OOOh bubblerock - Eric Stolz yuuummmy. He's also gorgeous in Memphis Belle (and everything apart from Mask)

foxinsocks · 14/06/2006 22:01

there were alot of watchable films around then - Blues Brothers, Stand by Me (with poor old River Phoenix), Lost Boys, Beverly Hills Cop

I watched so many movies when I was around that age. I hardly watch any now.

marthamoo · 14/06/2006 22:04

Ooh Lost Boys - that's a good film too. There's a distinctly Kieferish flavour to my favourites.

marthamoo · 14/06/2006 22:04

I can't stay awake for a whole film these days - and I have the attention span of a gnat.

sfxmum · 14/06/2006 22:05

times square anyone?

foxinsocks · 14/06/2006 22:07

me neither moo - I don't even bother with the cinema. 30 mins in and it's a guaranteed snore fest for me (all that darkness - it's a bit like being in a the-one-who-must-not-be-mentioned blacked out room)

Tortington · 14/06/2006 23:06

andrew mcarthy. oh my gooooooood.

lvoe all of this ilk - remember one ( not Molly) about a girl drummer who had boy as best friend but was her secret love and he fell for this posh popular bird.

my dd loves the breakfast club too - this was picked for an award at mtv recently

tribpot · 15/06/2006 18:13

Ah, Stand By Me. Fab. JC in that one as well, albeit briefly. (The older brother).

And The Outsiders - fanTAStic, "nature's first green is gold". C Thomas Howell, later to be found in a film that would surely never get made now, Soul Man (?), where he blacks up and goes to college as an African American and learns many important lessons in tolerance and understanding.

Dior · 15/06/2006 18:30

Emkana - The book of P in P has Molly R's character ending up with Ducky. They changed it for the film though!

My favourites:

Pretty in Pink (Andrew McCarthy mmmmmmmmmm)
Breakfast Club
Some Kind of Wonderful (Eric Stoltz mmmmmmmmm)
The Sure Thing (John Cusack mmmmmmmmmm)

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