1. Kristy Swanson
   Ally Sheedy
2. Demi Moore
   Molly Ringwald

Andie Walsh is a high school senior who works and also takes care of the home in this '80s story about a poor working-class girl who experiments with dating one of the rich kids in her school. She is played by Molly Ringwald.

1. Blane
   Duckie
2. Steff
   Bennie

When the film was adapted to a novel by H. B. Gilmour, Andie actually ended up with Duckie - not the "richie" kid, Blane. I guess their differences got in the way after all.

1. James
   Blane
2. Duckie
   Steff

Duckie is played by John Cryer. He is hopelessly in love with Andie, who just sees him as a good friend. He sees it as him and her against the world, as they are the poor and odd kids, and he hopes that she will see they have everything in common and they're a match made in heaven. She feels differently.

1. Her friend Duckie
   Her father
2. Steff
   Blane

Andie's mother left years before without a word, and Andie is caretaker to her father, Jack, who is hopelessly underemployed and okay with it. He is still reeling from his wife abandoning the family.

1. Out dancing
   A New Wave concert
2. A party at Steff's house
   To a thrift shop

Blane takes Andie to a party with the rich kids, who are surprised and repulsed that she is there. Benny is upset, as it is Steff's party and Blane shouldn't be allowed to invite "just anyone." She claims Andie will ruin her night - she curses and insults Blane for bringing Andie into the group.

1. He says they are stoned and confused
   He says they are as rude as they are thin-skinned
2. He blames it on them being better off than her
   He says they are jerks when they drink and he overestimated them

When Steff and Benny see Andie at Steff's party, Benny insults both Andie and Blane. When Andie wants to "get outta there," he excuses the behavior for the most part as he remains silent. He just says they are jerks when they drink and he overestimated them.

1. The Ramones
   The Psychedelic Furs
2. Taylor Swift
   The Go-Gos

John Hughes wrote two cult favorites, with "Pretty in Pink" penned a week after completing "Sixteen Candles." Both shared the same star, Molly Ringwald. The title "Pretty in Pink" was from a song penned and performed by the band, The Psychedelic Furs.

1. Andrew Dice Clay
   Dweezil Zappa
2. Kristy Swanson
   Annie Potts

The lovable, wacky-but-wiser big sister type of character, Iona, is played by Annie Potts, a favorite of John Hughes and a Designing Woman. She would go on to star as the desk clerk in "Ghostbusters" and as Bo Peep in the "Toy Story" movies. Kristy Swanson, Dweezil Zappa and Andrew Dice Clay were all in the movie too.

1. Steff
   Duckie
2. James
   Blane

Towards the beginning of the movie, Steff questions Andie about this and when will they get together. Andie snubs him and says never, and then he makes a pariah of her and treats her badly, especially when his friend starts dating her.

1. TICS
   TRAX
2. TREATS
   Tricks Are for Kids

Andie works at the record store TRAX, with Iona as her boss and manager. The Duckman "Duckie" visits frequently, often setting off the back door alarms, which frustrates Andie. Iona lives upstairs and invites Andie in for girl talk.

1. Shoots him in the face with a staple gun
   Throws records at him
2. Calls the police
   Sics the Duckman on him

When a kid tries to shoplift from a case in her record store, Iona turns and shoots at him with a staple gun. He exclaims, "You missed my eye by an inch," to which she replies, "Half an inch...." He runs out of the store. It was the '80s.

1. Simple Minds
   The Psychedelic Furs
2. Steve Miller
   Steve Lawrence

After asking her opinion on something, he asks if the Steve Lawrence record is any good. Andie replies that it is "white hot," so he buys it as a way to talk to her.

1. TRAX
   Ducks
2. CATS
   Meow

Andie loves the dark, cool music of the edgy club, CATS. She meets her friends there on a regular basis, but when she tries to bring Blane into the group as an introduction, Duckie makes a scene and they leave.

1. Andrew Dice Clay
   Robert Louis Stevenson
2. Jon Cryer
   Anthony Micheal Hall

Without an official name in the movie, the bouncer who Duckie pours all his romantic troubles onto is the comedian Andrew Dice Clay. He won't let Duckie in the club, although he claims his girlfriend is in there, so he would wait 3 or 4 hours to see her to her car.

1. Look at models on TV
   Look through magazines
2. Window shop at the mall
   Look at houses in rich neighborhoods

She would drive through the more affluent neighborhoods and be amazed at how beautiful the houses were and how large they were for just one family. She takes Duckie to her favorite and sits there, wondering how nice it must be inside, to live that way.

1. Roses and a balloon
   He dances up to her
2. He sings it out loud, '80s style
   Over the computer

Andie gets a message over the computer in the library, and she just assumes it is from Duckie. It actually is from Blane, the rich boy who she has a crush on and who she had seen previously in the record store.

1. Elizabeth Berkley
   Kyle MacLachlan
2. Andrew Carver
   Gina Gershon

Andie's friend tells Benny that she hopes they "shrivel up and fall off" and gets kicked out of gym class. Benny's friend laughs - it is Gina Gershon, who at that time was on the cover of "Cosmopolitan" magazine, and who would go on to star in "Showgirls" and "Bound."

1. Toss him into the teacher's bathroom
   Throw him into the girls' bathroom
2. Toss him into the principal's bathroom
   Toss him into a truckstop bathroom

After bumping into them, Duckie is physically picked up and thrown into the girl's restroom by the jocks, and he is surprised/outraged they have doors on the stalls and candy machines on the walls (actually tampon dispensers).

1. They are better people, that's why they have it
   It's their parents' money
2. They can't help being arrogant
   It's the same as them hating us for not having it

When Blane shows up to pick up Andie for their first date, Duckie is upset because she is going out with one of the rich kids. She explains she doesn't want to hold it against them, as it would be the exact same as them holding their lack of money against them, and Blane is "different."

1. He already asked somebody else but had forgotten
   Her promposal was lame
2. It would cost too much
   He is grounded for fighting

Due to pressure from his friends about dating and slumming, Blane backs out of asking Andie to the prom, using the excuse that he had already asked somebody else but had forgotten. Andie bravely decides to go by herself.

1. She doesn't want him to see her father
   She doesn't want him to see where she lives
2. She doesn't want him to see her car
   She doesn't want him to see her dress

After going to a big party and being treated poorly at Blane's friend's house, they go to the CATS club she likes. Duckie is rude, so she wants to call off the date and just be dropped off at the tracks, as she doesn't want him to see where she lives.

1. Strong feet
   Strong shoulders
2. Strong hands
   Strong lips

Iona wants to know all the "gory" details. When Andie visits Iona at her apartment to dish about her date with Blane, Iona questions if he has "strong lips." You can't go wrong with a guy with strong lips, Iona advises Andie. The way to tell is that you feel it in your knees, Iona explains.

1. He asks her to the prom
   He gives her a thrift shop gift card
2. Gives her a hug
   Asks her to go out again

After a horrendous failed date and clashes on both sides with their friends, Andie getting upset because she doesn't want Blane to see her house. He then asks her to the prom, hoping to make her feel better.

1. A dance
   A slap
2. A kiss yes
   A hug

After a horrendous first date, Blane asks her to the prom, if it would make her feel better. She jumps up and gives him a kiss as confirmation.

1. A pink dress
   Bedspread
2. Shoes
   Jewelry to decorate her clothes

After she tells her dad. Jack. that a "richie" asked her to the prom, a rich guy who is out of their social class, her dad explains it shouldn't matter if they like one another. He then goes and buys a pink dress for her to wear to prom.

1. Waits across the street, watching the window
   Rides his bike by constantly
2. Throws pebbles at the window
   Texts her constantly

While Andie is spilling the beans about her first date and the resulting promposal, and Iona is giving her advice and questioning details, Duckie just watches from across the street, staring at the window the whole time.

1. A pink polka-dot dress
   A pink wig
2. Pink lipstick
   Pink pantyhose

Iona gives Andie her dreamy pink polka-dot dress, given to her by her mom for her prom. She said that's the only time she ever looked normal, relatively speaking. Her date would've been a fairytale too, except that he had a wife and two kids.

1. He wiggled his tail
   She felt like quacking
2. He bit her lip
   Her thighs went up in flames

To make Andie jealous at the CATS club, Duckie lays a big kiss on Iona in front of her and her date, Blane. it leaves an impression on Iona and she swears to Andie that when he laid a kiss on her, her thighs "went up in flames." She says he must "practice on melons or something."

1. Curtains and lace
   Couchspread and taffeta
2. The dress from her dad and lace
   The dress from her dad and the one from Iona

To make a wholly original dress, she combines the dress from her dad and the one from Iona. In real life, the iconic dress was hated by Molly Ringwald and she didn't want to wear it, but John Hughes insisted.

1. Blane
   Steff
2. Iona
   Duckie

After making a dress and going by herself, Andie loses her nerve. She sees Duckie and they reconcile, then walk in together, hand in hand, finding strength and solace in their friendship.

1. She's poor
   He hates pink
2. Andie couldn't be bought
   He hates redheads

When Steff reveals that he had a thing for Andie, Blane guesses she couldn't be bought and thinks Steff is a lowlife. This explains why Steff has been so nasty and cruel about him dating her - jealousy.

1. Punches him in the jaw
   Slaps him
2. Joins in
   He spits on him

After realizing that all the animosity comes from Steff having been turned down by Andie, and that's why he was being cruel to her and made him turn her away, Blane punches a drunk Steff in the jaw at the prom.

1. Duckie
   Blane
2. Andie
   Iona

Duckie overhears Steff ridicule Blane once again for liking Andie, and hearing Steff describe Andie as "nada." A teacher has to break up the ensuing fight.

1. Nothing, he snubbed her
   Chases after him and kisses him
2. Slaps him for being his friend
   Throws a drink in his face

At the prom, when a drunken Steff is once again putting Andie down, Blane discovers that Steff had the hots for Andie but she turned him down, and that's why he's been a jerk. He punches Steff and leaves. Andie chases after him and kisses him.

1. A girl smiling at him
   Kids spiking the punch
2. The next girl he will stalk
   The next girl he will ride his bike past her house

Duckie suggests Andie run after Blane to be happy, at his expense, despite his love for her, and then he looks up and there is a girl smiling at him... a Duckette! The blonde actress is Kristy Swanson of "The Karate Kid" fame.