Pretty in Pink — "Try a Little Tenderness"

Poor girl (Molly Ringwald) crushes on rich boy (Andrew McCarthy). Poor girl's best friend (Jon Cryer) crushes on poor girl and goes on to deliver one of the greatest lip-synching performances ever to appear on film (except for, well, the one on the previous page). Frantic, passionate, completely dorky and totally lovable, Duckie's mouthing of Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness" inspired a legion of overlooked male "just friends" to express their feelings through pre-karaoke-era paroxysms of song. Most failed. But Hughes reminded us that victory lay in the attempt.

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