Why ‘Pretty in Pink’s Original Ending Got Booed

Forty years ago, moviegoers watched a teenage love triangle play out in the comedy-drama film Pretty in Pink, as the working-class Andie (Molly Ringwald) weighed her romantic prospects with fellow outsider Duckie (Jon Cryer) or upper-class love interest Blane (Andrew McCarthy).

In the end — four-decade-old spoiler alert! — Andie chooses Blane, and Duckie sacrifices his own happy ending to support the new relationship. But John Hughes’ screenplay for the film — which hit U.S. theaters on February 28, 1986 — didn’t originally end that way.