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Released
1986 · FILM

Pretty in Pink

Outcast teen Andie Walsh pursues a romance with popular jock Blane while battling the snobbery of her high‑school cliques and the expectations of friends and family.

“Blane's a pretty cool guy. Andie's pretty in pink. And Duckie's pretty crazy.”

Directed by
Howard Deutch, Carol Green
Written by
John Hughes
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
97 min
ComedyDramaRomance

Synopsis

Andie is an outcast who spends most of her time either with her older boss, the owner of the record store where she works, or with her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who is infatuated with her. When Blane, one of the rich and popular students at school, asks her out, Andie is initially skeptical. As their relationship develops, she begins to fall for him, but soon discovers that navigating a romance across different social circles is far from simple.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 140+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Richard MarksShot by Tak FujimotoScored by Michael GoreDesigned by John W CorsoSound by Gary C BourgeoisCostumes by Marilyn VanceStunts by Dick Hancock

Box Office

1986 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$40.5M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$40.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $6.1M — 15% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $7.5M — 19% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 827 theaters

Also known as

  • Rose bonbonfr
  • Bella in rosait
  • (English)Pretty in Pink
  • (Bulgarian)Щастлива в розово
Release dates around the world3 countries · show
  • United StatesJan 29, 1986
  • CanadaFeb 28, 1986
  • RussiaMar 6, 1986

Companies

ProductionParamount Pictures
DistributionParamount Distribution, United International Pictures (UIP), United International Pictures, Paramount Films of India
Other companiesA&M Records, BT Industrial Supply, Central Casting, Dolby Stereo, Dolby

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