Pretty in Pink landed in theaters on Feb. 28, 1986. Directed by Howard Deutch and written and co-executive-produced by John Hughes, the movie stars Molly Ringwald as Andie, an ambitious teenager trying to take care of her dad (the late Harry Dean Stanton) while navigating her class-obsessed high school and planning for college.
Luckily, she has a solid support system: irreverent best friend Duckie (Jon Cryer); her boss, the quirky record-store owner Iona (Annie Potts); and a preppy dreamboat crush named Blane (Andrew McCarthy). Her star-crossed romantic adventures also had a great soundtrack.
As with other Hughes movies,
Pretty in Pink featured songs by artists on the cutting-edge of cool, including INXS, Psychedelic Furs, the Smiths, and Echo & the Bunnymen. Unlike some other Hughes-associated movies, however, these songs were compiled into a commercially available full-length soundtrack, which was released on A&M Records several weeks before the