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Sixteen Candles

PG
Movie
1984
1h 33m
English
Drama, Romance
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.
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7.2
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Sixteen Candles (1984) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
71

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Molly Ringwald
Samantha Baker
Haviland Morris
Caroline Mulford
Gedde Watanabe
Long Duk Dong
Justin Henry
Mike Baker
Paul Dooley
Jim Baker
Carlin Glynn
Brenda Baker
Blanche Baker
Ginny Baker
Edward Andrews
Howard Baker
Billie Bird
Dorothy Baker
Carole Cook
Grandma Helen
Max Showalter
Grandpa Fred
Debbie Pollack
Lumberjack
Ross Berkson
Ray Gun Geek #1
Jonathan Chapin
Jimmy Montrose
Joan Cusack
Geek Girl #1
Bekka Eaton
Female D.J.
Pamela Elser
Shower Double
Steven Farber
Ray Gun Geek #2
Directed By: John Hughes
Written By: John Hughes

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Cb Uppercut says...
6 years ago
Didn't really expect to love this film cause it ain't my typical watch but what can I say John Hughes knows how to make a high school coming of age film.
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faithful soul says...
6 years ago
Surprisingly, considering I used to be a big John Hughes fan, I completely bypassed this movie. It's not one of his best, but for a child of the 80's like me, it still left a nostalgic glow. Still, it doesn't hold a candle (or 16) to the best Hughes movie of them all, The Breakfast Club.
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nmahoney416 says...
7 years ago
It's a nice movie. Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall were both good. There are some funny moments and John Hughes definitely has a style. You just have to look past some of the situations that aren't politically correct now. Plus they had a fully naked women in this and its only rated pg, that wouldn't fly today.
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pedro-deleted-1553083453 says...
10 years ago
young people these days. they dont even dream what they missed... =) 80´s / 90´s were so amazing...
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drqshadow
7/10  5 years ago
Part sweet-hearted teenage romance and part raunchy National Lampoon comedy, which makes sense as this film represents a transition for first-time director John Hughes. Fresh from a post at the Lampoon magazine, where he penned the seminal classic Vacation, Hughes was about to revolutionize teen-gea More
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JPV852
4 years ago
Really fun, and funny, romantic-comedy that is to me akin to Ferris Bueller's Day Off style of humor from John Hughes (vs. something like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink with a more serious tone or themes). Anyway, this was my first time seeing this and while I still place TBC and FBDO over th More
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John Chard
6 years ago
I've never bagged a babe. I'm not a stud.

It's Samantha Baker's 16th birthday and her family are so wrapped up in her sisters impending wedding, they have completely forgotten Sam's big day. Not only that but she has the hots for school hunk Jake Ryan who, apparently doesn't know she even exists. More
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