For Keeps?

""You're what?!""

Jan 15 1988 PG-13 1h 30m
Comedy, Drama, Romance

Young high school couple Darcy Elliot and Stan Bobrucz are one year from graduation, with promising futures ahead of them. But their paths take a drastic turn when Darcy becomes pregnant. Unwilling to go through an abortion or an adoption — despite their parents' pleas — Darcy and Stan decide to sacrifice their college experiences and degrees in order to keep and raise the baby. After a quick marriage, the two realize it won't be as easy as they thought.

Plot

Darcy, editor at her high school paper, and her long-term boyfriend Stan are in their last months of school and already have found places in good colleges. Recently they started to sleep with each other and, surprise, surprise, Darcy gets pregnant. Neither Darcy's mother, who was left by her husband and had to bring up Darcy alone, nor Stan's Catholic parents are very supportive and urge them to have an abortion or give up for adoption respectively. However Darcy's and Stan's love is so intense, they could imagine to have a baby, but this would mean to give up their college careers.

Written by

Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue

Directed by

John G. Avildsen

Cast

Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

TriStar Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

Trailers
For Keeps? (1988) HBO promo
Scores
# of Votes
5,434
Average Rating
5.9 out of 10
Metascore
41
Popularity
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