#Film and Video at the Cornerhouse, including showings of Stop Making Sense, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Rude Boy and Born in Flames, as well as the European premieres of Pretty in Pink and Sid and Nancy.
It has served as a backdrop for several films and television shows, most notably the exterior of the Ridgemont Mall in Fast Times at Ridgemont High; it has also been used in Pretty in Pink as well as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Beverly Hills, 90210, and in the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles.
In 1986, the band recorded a new version of "Pretty in Pink" for the soundtrack of the film of the same name.
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They scored several hits in their early career, but were launched to international attention in 1986 when the film director John Hughes used their song "Pretty in Pink" for his movie of the same name.
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The album version of the song was featured in the Academy Award-nominated short film More by Mark Osborne, the film Pretty In Pink, and the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Compulsion".
It is included in the soundtracks of the films Pretty in Pink, Starter for 10, (500) Days of Summer, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as well as in the Christmas special finale of UK TV show Extras, which was broadcast in the UK on 27 December 2007.
The group of "Brat Pack" actors and actresses, which included Rob Lowe, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, Anthony Michael Hall and Andrew McCarthy, have all appeared in one or more teen oriented coming-of-age films, such as The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire and Pretty in Pink.
Totally Awesome directly parodies a number of 1980s movies, including Dirty Dancing, Soul Man, Footloose, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Teen Wolf, Better Off Dead, Lucas, Pretty in Pink, and The Karate Kid.