![]() ![]() Clearly, at some point prior to the events of the film, Ferris visited 1996 Chicago and discovered himself living a comfortable if ordinary life of working for the man and following the rules, so when he returns to his senior year of 1986, he decided to put all of his efforts into living life for the moment, embracing his youth, and having unbridled, confident fun. Ferris (Matthew Broderick) has thousands of dollars’ worth of computer equipment that he uses to stage all sorts of pranks and schemes, and it’s certainly enough to propel him into the future and back. The greatest time-travel movie of the ’80s isn’t Back to the Future it’s this. Like any good teen movie, it all culminates in a tentatively happy ending at the prom, where kids celebrate being miniature adults - none of the problems, all of the optimism, and lots of crêpe paper and OMD songs. She finds an escape by going all-in on a true-blue high-school romance with wealthy dreamboat Blaine (Andrew McCarthy). But she doesn’t really look forward to leaving this all behind because she’s got a working-class life of scraping by and taking care of her increasingly unreliable father (Harry Dean Stanton) ahead of her. Andie (Ringwald) hasn’t had a particularly great high-school experience - the mean girls make her life hell because she’s poor, and her best friend Ducky (Jon Cryer) won’t stop hitting on her. John Hughes got rich making movies about how rich people are assholes, and the class struggle is most alive in Pretty in Pink because it’s the one entry in his Ringwald Trilogy (alongside The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles) that takes place the closest to the end of high school, and the kids are starting to feel those real-world pressures. ![]()
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