Three syllables: I-CON-IC.

Inferior to the other early Hughes film because it feels like a stage play. The performances, though, are fine.

So they all get chummy at the end and share a bond with each other after they spent a whopping afternoon together.Fuck off! At my school the misfit and the jock would have teamed up and kicked the shit out of the nerd and taken his lunch whilst taking turns trying to screw the princess while also taunting and teasing the lout causing her to become bullemic and anorexic.... Oh, and there would have been some dirty farting also going on whilst laughing at the girls gag on the smell.

Not as good as Pretty in Pink, but still worthy of affection and attention. Way better than Sixteen Candles. Some of this movie is excessively cheesy 80s comedy, a little too slapsticky almost at times, but there's definitely heart and sincerity to it.

John Hughes and Ally Sheedy at their very best. Sheedys dark 'basket case' Allison is just classic.

Funny, quirky, and at times totally cheesy. The acting here is pretty solid all around and made an 80's star out of quite a few of the actors in this film. You have to watch this as a period piece instead of thinking about how dated things are because it represents everything about the 80's pretty well. The only drawback is that the angst is rather trivial and there is no real plot to speak of so the film feels like a play more than anything.