Andie's best friend, Phil 'Duckie' Dale ( Jon Cryer), is in love with her, but plays it off as a joke in front of her. When Andie and Blane try to get together, they encounter resistance from their respective social circles.Īndie lives on 'the wrong side of the tracks' with her unemployed father ( Harry Dean Stanton) who is still devastated by the breakup of his marriage to Andie's mother some years before.
High school senior Andie Walsh ( Molly Ringwald) is a working class girl who has a crush on one of the rich, preppie boys in her school, Blane McDonough ( Andrew McCarthy).
