For Keeps
by John G. Avildsen
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Actor: Conchata Ferrell, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Molly Ringwald, Randall BatinkoffDirector: John G. Avildsen
Brand: Sony
Producer: Cindy Pierson
Producer: Doug Seelig
Producer: Jerry Belson
Producer: Walter Coblenz
Producer: William J. Cassidy
Writer: Denise DeClue
Writer: Tim Kazurinsky
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of For Keeps
Movie Review: This movie is great, pass the turnips!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie came out the same year as John Hughes She's Having a Baby, which is about a young married couple struggling with relationships and work, and ultimately the decision to have a baby. This movie is about two seniors in high school who are very much in love, dealing with teenage pregnancy and all the responsibilites that come with it. For keeps is the better movie, but it was never given its proper place in history because , I believe, Shes Having A Baby, overshadowed it. Its ironic because Ringwald is so connected to John Hughes and the one movie that she isnt in of his, gets no joy because of him.
Darcy and Stan are both smart, popular, headed for college and a bright future. Their parents, hers being an uptight single mother who lives vicariously through her daughter and his being proud of an almost college bound architect wannabe. They pregnancy is met with shock, and anger(by the parents) and the whole reveal is actually quite sweet as they both just silently give support to one another.
With 900 bucks and 6 free big macs, they set out to make a family , now that their blood relatives have turned their back. Its a bit overacted by Randall Batinkoff, and Molly is always molly but it worked for me. Its so endearing and heartfelt and the whole movie really makes sense. We have all been in that place where we had to grow up a bit fast at points, and its no fun to leave behind some dreams you have for yourself but in the end things happen when they are supposed too, to make you stronger, to join you closer and to bring new life to the world.
I love this movie, have since i was 15 and now that i am 37.
Summary of For Keeps
FOR KEEPS - DVD MovieAlthough not made as a TV movie of the week, it may as well have been. Molly Ringwald plays an industrious teen headed for college who finds herself pregnant and heading toward disaster in this trite morality play. She pouts and cries a lot; she tries to make everything better. She can't. Things get worse, but she just bounces back. To be fair, this does delve into serious issues. Also, it was produced at a time when most teen movies were either lightweight vehicles by John Hughes or gory slasher flicks. It just feels too contrived, and too glossy, to be taken seriously. This sentiment is underscored when Ringwald and her young hubby seem to be making it as a couple, which is hardly the reality of most teen marriages. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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