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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I loved the central love story and Molly Ringwald's take on a generally angsty teen.

Every other storyline was problematic: the date rape, the racist tropes on Gedde Watanabe's character - with the bonus of treating Joan Cusack as a loser because of scoliosis - and the mafia jokes about the sister's fiance [b]and her being drugged at the wedding (and presumably for the wedding night too).[/b][/quote]

God people, rewatch the movie!  No one drugged the bride. She took too much medicine for her menstrual cramps. And she did this on her own, no one tricked her into it! [/quote]

Right- but it wasn’t simple Midol.  She was on hard core muscle relaxers, which were much more commonly prescribed for menstrual cramps back then. Midol wouldn’t make a person act like that, even if she had overdosed.

It’s a movie that took all of the craziness of high school in the 80s and oversimplified and over exaggerated it all at the same time.  Most of Joh Hughes’s movies did that.  That’s why all of us normal kids ran to see his films.  Granted, there was a lot of sex and booze in high school but nothing was quite as beautiful as they were in the movies.

PS- everyone talks about the rapey and racist behavior but what about poor Joan Cusack who had to struggle with her scoliosis brace and couldn’t even get a drink of water?  Anti-ADA!![/quote]

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