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Name: Sixteen Candles
Released: 1984-5-5
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Dooley, Carlin Glynn, Justin Henry

Sixteen Candles

PG
1h 32m
1984

81%

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It's Samantha Baker's Sweet Sixteen and no one in her family remembers the important occasion. John Hughes, the writer of National Lampoon's Vacation, shows how coming-of-age can be full of surprises in this warm-hearted teenage comedy starring Molly Ringwald. She's your average teen, enduring creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the Big Blonde on Campus who stands between her and the boy of her dreams. But wait...the day isn't over yet! This sparkling film features a dynamic score, and outstanding performances by Paul Dooley, Emmy® winner Blanche Baker and Oscar® nominee Justin Henry.

Director:

John Hughes

Producer:

Hilton A. Green

Writer:

John Hughes

Cast:

Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Paul Dooley, Carlin Glynn, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling, Haviland Morris, Gedde Watanabe, Blanche Baker, John Cusack, Joan Cusack

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Where the Heart Is…

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Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Critics Consensus: Significantly more mature than the teen raunch comedies that defined the era, Sixteen Candles is shot with compassion and clear respect for its characters and their hang-ups.

Reviews

The Age (Australia)

Neil Jillett

Its Middle American cast of plastic females and self-regarding males look and behave like delegates to a Republican convention. The slight plot is strung out on a series of gross jokes.

Sixteen Candles is a genuinely funny film with plenty of throwaway gags that betray Hughes' Lampoon origins.

At times it's laugh-out-loud funny, highlighting the awkwardness of adolescence through alternations of clumsiness, low self-esteem, and misadventures of maturation.

Meandering and kind of dull and doesn't quite manage to be as sweet as its romantic final scene.

To try to explain Sixteen Candles as a person who was there for it in first run today is to helplessly shrug and say, 'I don't know, man, it was a different time.'

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Additional Info

Genre:Comedy
Release Date:May 5, 1984
Languages:English, Spanish
Captions:English, Spanish
Audio Format:
5.1

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Sixteen Candles | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Celebrating SIXTEEN CANDLES

U R Unique

5 MIN