Every John Hughes & Molly Ringwald Movie, Ranked Worst To Best

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The 1980s were an extremely significant time for teen dramas and comedies. While in the 1950s and '60s, there was the “Rat Pack,” with musicians Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., in the 1980s, there was a new group of teenagers called the “Brat Pack.” These young actors were just about everywhere, including Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe, and Emilio Estevez, among others.

The Brat Pack, which consisted of up-and-coming teens and young twenty-something celebrities, were in all of the teen comedies, romances, and dramas that there were in the 1980s. A huge majority of the Brat Pack films were directed by the iconic John Hughes. These extremely popular films included The Breakfast Club (1985), St. Elmo’s Fire (1985), and Weird Science (1985), just to name a few. The Brat Pack films died down in the late 1980s/early 1990s as the actors grew out of the roles, but they remain some of the most influential films of the decade.

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While John Hughes repeatedly used the same few actors for his films, many considered Molly Ringwald his “muse” (via Throwbacks). She was the starlet of these films and everyone’s crush in the 1980s. Although there has been some controversy surrounding Hughes after Ringwald said his films “could also be considered racist, misogynistic, and, at times, homophobic” in her 2018 essay "What About The Breakfast Club?" (via The New Yorker), the influence of these films remains significant. Here is a breakdown of every 80s’ John Hughes movie he did with Molly Ringwald, ranked worst to best.

Sixteen Candles (1984) was the first film that Molly Ringwald and John Hughes ever worked on