Sixteen Candles (1984) Summary

1. Sixteen Candles movie review & film summary (1984) - Roger Ebert

  • "Sixteen Candles" is a sweet and funny movie about two of the worst things that can happen to a girl on her sixteenth birthday.

  • "Sixteen Candles" is a sweet and funny movie about two of the worst things that can happen to a girl on her sixteenth birthday: (1) Her grandparents shrieking

2. Sixteen Candles | Rotten Tomatoes

  • Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior.

  • With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha (Molly Ringwald) faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake (Michael Schoeffling), but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, Samantha must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted (Anthony Michael Hall), the only boy in the school, unfortunately, who seems to take an interest in her.

3. Sixteen Candles Movie Review | Common Sense Media

  • What's the Story? ... In SIXTEEN CANDLES, Sam (Molly Ringwald) is turning 16, but her family has forgotten her birthday because of her sister's impending wedding.

  • Racy, drunken, hilarious '80s high school comedy. Read Common Sense Media's Sixteen Candles review, age rating, and parents guide.

4. SIXTEEN CANDLES (1984) - Frame Rated

  • 17 jul 2019 · A girl's 'sweet' sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. Playing on nostalgia, films ...

  • A review of John Hughes' 1984 teen coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles, starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall & Paul Dooley.

5. Sixteen Candles film-analysis - The Pro-Youth Pages

  • The plot is simple. Molly Ringwald (Pretty in Pink, For Keeps) crushes on a handsome classmate (Michael Schoeffling) while being pursued in turn by the school's ...

  • How the Hughes movie 'Sixteen Candles' treats youth.

6. Sixteen Candles (1984) - simonprior.com

  • 18 feb 2014 · Twitter Plot Summary: After her family forget her 16th birthday, Sam Baker has to deal with lots of teenage angst-type stuff.

  • Twitter Plot Summary: After her family forget her 16th birthday, Sam Baker has to deal with lots of teenage angst-type stuff. Five Point Summary: 1. They forgot! How rude. 2.

7. Sixteen Candles (1984) - Ritz Cinemas

  • The Story. A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.

8. Sixteen Candles (1984) – Teen Movie Rewind - Set The Tape

  • 7 mei 2020 · Like so many John Hughes films of this era, many of Sixteen Candles' scenes and images are ingrained into the fabric of the teen film genre, ...

  • In our Teen Movie Rewind series we explore coming of age stories and teen cinema, looking at the impact of the films themselves and the careers that they made. There were teen movies before John Hu…

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