man at her school. The two wish each other well and the film ends as they both walk away. Cast Molly Ringwald as Jewel Andrew McCarthy as Matt Larkin Patti D'Arbanville as Jean Ben Stiller as Tipton Leon Russom as Kyle Larkin Molly Hagan as Ellen Viggo Mortensen as Green Doug Hutchison as Sproles Dan Davis as Fletcher John Powell as Himself Zack Stickles as Himself Original play The film was based on a play by Larry Ketron. It debuted on 11 February 1986 Off Broadway at the WPA Theatre in New York starring Craig Sheffer and Suzy Amis. Dann Florek directed and the cast also included Mark Benninghofen, John Bowman, Marissa Chibas, Alice Haining and Havilland Morris. Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote that the play: Is more a collection of lively scenes and funny speeches than a sustained work; it doesn't so much come to a point as slow to a halt. But the evening is highly entertaining along its way -far more so than other Ketron plays, largely set in the same milieu, that have appeared at the WPA and elsewhere over the past decade. If this playwright writes rather formlessly – and can still hand inarticulate characters erudite authorial pronouncements – he has finally perfected the pitch of his comic voice. That voice is not the Deep Southern belt of Eudora Welty... but the twang of the modern border states, where new money has eroded Dixie tradition and landscape alike. Amis' performance in particular was much praised. Production Film rights were bought by Weintraub Entertainment, a new company from Jerry Weintraub. It would be their first production (although they distributed The Big Blue.) "It's a passionate love story", said Ringwald. "He's a yuppie, a young guy engaged to be married. He meets me -- uneducated, almost illiterate, sexy, complex, dangerous. So mismatched they can never work out, but they're in love." She added it was "very dark story about two very different people. It's like a love story that was doomed from the beginning. There's a lot more layers and the character goes into a lot more depth than the other characters I've done." Her fee was reportedly between $500,000 and $1 million. Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy had previously played mismatched lovers in Pretty in Pink and Ringwald admitted, "It was a big question in all our minds before we started the film. Are