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PieLove

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I really love this film. It's such a classic! Such a cute movie. I kinda wish Andy would of ended up with Duckie, though. He's so cute! I love the scene with Duckie dancing in the record store. One of my favorite movie scenes of all time. It also...
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I really love this film. It's such a classic! Such a cute movie. I kinda wish Andy would of ended up with Duckie, though. He's so cute! I love the scene with Duckie dancing in the record store. One of my favorite movie scenes of all time. It also has some hilarious moments. All in all, a pretty awesome film to see.

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Posted jun 29, 2007 7:19 am pt

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Absolutely phenomenally hilarious teen comedy from the 1980s. This was one of the films that really created the "teen comedy" genre as we know it today.

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Posted mar 13, 2007 9:25 am pt

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Enter the world of platform shoes and 45's. It's Andie and Duckie against the world, and then some. Things change when Blaine enters their edge of the world, and turns it upside down, breaking hearts as he goes. A story of best friends, unrequited...
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Enter the world of platform shoes and 45's. It's Andie and Duckie against the world, and then some. Things change when Blaine enters their edge of the world, and turns it upside down, breaking hearts as he goes. A story of best friends, unrequited first loves,and social sterotypes set in the magical 80s.

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Posted feb 18, 2007 4:27 am pt

• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  88
  The movie made me so happy, and here I am back on the subway with Nerdo, and there's this jerk across the aisle who's like ancient, 30 at least, and he's got the nerve to look right into my see-through Madonna lace outfit. And he winks. Oh, barf- ola.

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• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  80
  Delightful... The film is buoyed by a captivating performance by Ringwald, who has an unerring ability to share her character's emotions with an audience, as if we were eavsdropping behind her makeup mirror. [28 Feb 1986]

  by Patrick Goldstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  Although it is not a great movie, it contains some moments when the audience is likely to think, yes, being 16 was exactly like that.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Very high on my list of good movie titles, has fascinating deep tones, surprising poignancy, and tendor humor for a movie aimed at teenage audiences. [28 Feb 1986]

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  70
  Fortunately, the actors are mostly likable, and the story is told gently enough to downplay both its trendiness and its conventionality.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  70
  A rather intelligent (if not terribly original) look at adolescent insecurities.

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• [+] Time
  
  70
  Blane's snooty friend Steff (Spader) could be a tired stereotype, but with his all-year tan, his hip-blase voice and hs view of high school as a "career," Steff becomes a recognizable character of any age: upscale slime in embryo. [3 Mar 1996, p.83]

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  60
  While the script contains trite and unbelievable dialogue, the superbly convincing performances make up for these faults.

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• [+] Film Threat
  
  60
  I got my first date because of this movie so you won't see me giving it any less than three stars.

  by Brad Laidman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  40
  Slack and unconvincing throughout with the exception of Ringwald, who remains natural and appealing as the thin world of the film collapses around her.

  by Dave Kehr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  38
  What we have here is a much less radical movie than writer Hughes probably believes he has created. Yes, he's given us an individualistic girl, but she swoons like a robot after the first reasonably human WASP or WASC asks her for a date. [2 Feb 1986]

  by Gene Siskel | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
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  The movie is slight and vapid, with the consistency of watery jello...It isn't about teenagers – it's actually closer to being a pre-teen's idea of what it will be like to be a teenager. [7 Apr 1996, p.91]

  by Pauline Kael | Read Full Review »