For Keeps

(1988)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 152 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Year: 1988

Runtime: 90 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: John G. Avildsen

Cast: Молли Рингуолд, Рэндолл Батинкофф, Кеннет Марс, Мириам Флинн, Кончата Феррелл, Sharon Brown, John Zarchen, Pauly Shore, Michelle Downey, Patricia Barry

Plot

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.

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.