For Keeps?

Name: For Keeps?
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: January 15, 1988
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Conchata Ferrell, John Zarchen, Kenneth Mars, Michelle Downey, Miriam Flynn

1988

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: January 15, 1988 | PG-13

Starring: Conchata Ferrell, John Zarchen, Kenneth Mars, Michelle Downey, Miriam Flynn, Molly Ringwald, Patricia Barry, Pauly Shore, Randall Batinkoff, Sharon Brown

Summary: After she gets pregnant, a teenage girl (Molly Ringwald) must decide whether she should keep the baby or not.

Director: John G. Avildsen

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 90 min

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Roger Ebert

For Keeps is an intriguing movie that succeeds in creating believable characters, keeping them alive, and steering them more or less safely past the cliches that are inevitable with this kind of material. It’s a movie with heart, and that compensates for a lot of the predictability. Read full review

Hal Lipper

Director John G. Avildsen and screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue do an amiable job balancing humor and pathos while investigating the ultimate nightmare of every sexually active unmarried adolescent. [16 Jan 1988, p.1D]

Janet Maslin

Most of For Keeps is entirely predictable, but that should do little to diminish its interest for audiences of high-school age. Here again, Miss Ringwald is the very model of teen-age verisimilitude, and she's most impressive in making even the most hackneyed situations seem real. Read full review

John Allemang

Nice try, spermatozoa. You look forlornly out of place in this make- believe version of reality, where pregnancy intrudes on those well placed to cope with it, and moral issues are fudged wherever possible. [15 Jan 1988]

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Though the film finally opts for ear-bashing histrionics, its prevailingly pedagogic tone is both coy and tricksy. The dialogue is relentless in its banality, the stereotype characters unattractive and poorly motivated, the plot protracted and predictable. Read full review

Sheila Benson

Almost any movie with Molly Ringwald at its centerpiece has a built-in plus to it. The wonder about For Keeps is that not even Ringwald's customary glow and bedrock believability make a smidgen of difference. Muddled it is and muddled it remains. Read full review

Dave Kehr

The film is full of carefully balanced moral proclamations, to the point where it begins to resemble an episode of "Nightline." [15 Jan 1988, p.B]

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