Excellent, smart action film.

Best movie of this year hands down!

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I can't understand how this excellent teen romance received such a low rating...the story may be a bit dated, but considering the teen pregnancy rate in the US, it is still very topical. But more than this, the acting all around in excellent...Molly Ringwald's best effort. A high school student get pregnant, her boyfriend marries her, they struggle to get through school and into college, with obstacles such as an obstructive mother-in law to hurdle. Eventually the trials just about get the best of them, but love triumphs in the end.There's a lot of honest emotion in this film, very realistic as is the 1960s setting.

A high school ace with everything going for her goofs up and gets pregnant; her mother is devastated, and her boyfriend's parents object, but the teens get married and hope for the best. Molly Ringwald's appealing personality manages to shine through the plastic coating and convictionless screenplay by Denise DeClue and Tim Kazurinsky, good writers who have no idea what tone to set--nor how to wrap things up. The adults are shrill caricatures played cartoonishly over-the-top, while newcomer Randall Batinkoff is just average. Ringwald's career became rudderless after out-growing the John Hughes/teen-angst comedies which made her a star, so why in "For Keeps?" is she back in high school? It's a defeatist move, and while Ringwald never embarrasses herself, she's obviously too smart a cookie to lend any kind of credibility to this hackneyed scenario. ** from ****

I'm struggling with the keyboard to give this a rating of two. Among the only refreshing things this movie did for me was give me 80s nostalgia overload, see an unknown Pauly Shore in a bit part, and watch Molly Ringwald in a non-Hughes role. I couldn't take "Katherine" (Eddie's wife in National Lampoon's Vacations) as a French speaking, partially refined, concerned mother. Nor could I handle Ringwald screeching in the shower in reference to the "boaconstricter" on her boyfriend, claiming she'd not seen it previous to being knocked up. This disappointment was similar to seeing Some Kind of Wonderful, and finding one of the only redeeming qualities was the soundtrack and the last two minutes of the film. Very much unlike the usual teenage angst I expected. Brace yourself for contrived performances by the parental figures and very unattractive populars that attempt to thwart the romance at hand.

For Keeps (1988) Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell, Sharon Brown, Renee Estevez, John Zarchen, Michelle Downy, Pauly Shore, D: John G. Avildsen. Long-term high school couple marries thinking they can handle a life together after diligent Ringwald gets pregnant. Truthful teen trials like sex, marriage, parenthood, and family acceptance are underscored, but the repercussions of the story are obvious and insincere. Good intentions though. Running Time: 98 minutes and rated PG-13 for some language and sexual situations. RATING: ** (out of ****)