History YMMV / ForKeeps

* CriticalDissonance: While critically ''eviscerated'' and considered by many to be Molly Ringwald's StarDerailingRole, the film's audience rating on Website/RottenTomatoes is considerably higher, and it made back its budget.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/MollyRingwald would go on to play the mom of a pregnant teenager in ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager''.

* ValuesDissonance: The Korean priest's [[AsianSpeekeeEngrish broken English]] is played for laughs.
* There's also the movie's portrayal of Darcy's post-partum depression. [[FairForItsDay While it is commendable that they showcase post-partum depression as a mental condition and not a character flaw in a time when movies with characters as adults wouldn't dare touch that subject with a 20 foot pole, the way it's resolved is unrealistic and insulting to modern views of post-partum depression.]]

* There's also the movie's portrayal of Darcy's post-partum depression. [[FairForItsDay While it is commendable that they showcase post-partum depression as a mental condition and not a character flaw in a time when movies with characters as adults wouldn't dare touch that subject with a 20 foot pole, the way it's resolved is unrealistic and insulting to modern views of post-partum depression.

* BrokenBase: It remains a controversial and divisive movie among Molly Ringwald's fanbase, with three main camps of opinion: those who legitimately enjoy the film, and consider it one of Ringwald's best performances; those who see it as the moment her career completely derailed; and finally, people who enjoy it for what a spectacular melodramatic mess it is, like ''Film/TheRoom''.

* {{Anvilicious}}: We get it, Molly. Teen pregnancy is rough. The film novelization is ''[[UpToEleven even more so]]''. Darcy chastises her best friend Lila for not only having sex in Darcy’s apartment (while Thea was napping mind you!), but also not using contraception considering they could be easily accessed in the cabinet, as she didn't want Lila to become a teen mom like her. Furthermore, when Stan asks Darcy if they're ever going to have sex again, after Thea was born, Darcy tells him that if they do, they're going to use protection and the two rush out to the store to get contraception.

* {{Anvilicious}}: We get it, Molly. Teen pregnancy is rough.
** The film novelization is ''[[UpToEleven even more so]]''. Darcy chastises her best friend Lila for not only having sex in Darcy’s apartment (while Thea was napping mind you!), but also not using contraception considering they could be easily accessed in the cabinet, as she didn't want Lila to become a teen mom like her. Furthermore, when Stan asks Darcy if they're ever going to have sex again, after Thea was born, Darcy tells him that if they do, they're going to use protection and the two rush out to the store to get contraception.
** SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: To some viewers.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Like Creator/MollyRingwald's post-JohnHughes films of this period, ''Film/ThePickUpArtist'' and ''Film/FreshHorses'', the film suffers from this trope due to Darcy's near-constant angst and the sheer amount of crap she has to put up with.

** Then there's the opening credits, which features Stan's sperm traveling through Darcy's body, set to Bill Conti's cute score. Yuck.
* SoBadItsGood: This may be a possible explanation for the movie's high audience rating score on RT.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Like Ringwald's post-Hughes films of this period, ''The Pick-Up Artist'' and ''Fresh Horses'', the film suffers from this trope due to Darcy's near-constant angst and the sheer amount of crap she has to put up with.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Like Ringwald's post-Hughes films of this period, ''The Pick-Up Artist'' and ''Fresh Horses'', the film suffers from this trope due to Darcy's near-constant angst and the sheer amount of crap she has to put up with.

** The film novelization is ''[[UpToEleven even more so]]''. Darcy chastises her best friend Lila for not only having sex in Darcy’s apartment (while Thea was napping mind you!), but also not using contraception considering they could be easily accessed in the cabinet, and she didn't want Lila to become a teen mom like her. Furthermore, when Stan asks Darcy if they're ever going to have sex again, after Thea was born, Darcy tells him that if they do, they're going to use protection and the two rush out to the store to get contraception.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Apparently, ThePowerOfLove alone can get you through teen pregnancy and early parenthood!
-->'''Roger Ebert''': The one thing it lacks, perhaps, is a notice at the end advising teenagers that for every young couple like this one, there are a thousand broken hearts.

* MisaimedFandom: As a consequence of the film's FamilyUnfriendlyAesop.