Sixteen Candles
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. From TMDB
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60 of 185 · most liked firstYup. For the same reason you shouldn't show a movie you loved as a teen to your kid without watching it again first, ie the Sixteen Candles Problem
unlabelledView post →Sixteen Candles, Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwald, 1984. The ultimate 80's movie.
unlabelledView post →OBSESSION is what happens when 1980s John Hughes directs SIXTEEN CANDLES and then 15 minutes into the movie EVIL DEAD 2 era Sam Raimi punches Hughes in the stomach and takes the reins.
unlabelledView post →Oh, man, Sixteen Candles. My daughter got SO MAD at Gen X after she watched that. "Something is wrong with your generation that you EVER thought that movie was okay!" (I had actually never seen it and did not recommend it to her, to be clear.)
unlabelledView post →Buyer Beware: Some 4K discs and streaming versions of cult classics have soundtrack changes. Not too long ago, I did a [**JoBlo Originals** video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPhhTTn2mO4) on the 1994 Jeff Bridges/Tommy Lee Jones action flick *Blown Away*. In it, I mentioned that the movie had just been re-released by Kino Lorber on 4K UHD---a cause for celebration. Or so I thought. While the movie is largely intact, two minor soundtrack substitutions have apparently been made, which you can…
unlabelledView post →O' Captain, my Captain!. In the late 80's, there were plans for a Star Trek Academy film featuring John Cusack as Spock and Ethan Hawke as Kirk. [The story behind its cancelation](https://trekmovie.com/2010/08/25/harve-bennett-talks-academy-years-concept-jj-abrams-star-trek/). Cusack from Sixteen Candles and Hawke from White Fang with backdrop from Star Trek '09 Personal dream casting from that era: Ewan McGregor as Scotty, Emilio Estevez as Chekov, Tatyana Ali as Uhura, Brendan Fraser as…
unlabelledView post →The movie came out in 1985, in roughly the same time frame as various movies that featured permutations of jocks-vs.-nerds animosity (e.g. Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, Weird Science). But Real Genius was about what happens when nerds lean into bullying *other* nerds
unlabelledView post →“Love of the Common People” was 1st recorded in 1967 by #The4Preps followed by #WayneNewton & then #TheEverlyBrothers. But it was the 1984 version by UK singer #PaulYoung featured in the teen comedy film SIXTEEN CANDLES that same year that was an early Starck fave #80s youtu.be/SVmjKHkgxis?...
unlabelledView post →Share some sisters from Film or TV. My choice: Sam and Ginny from Sixteen Candles 🖤
unlabelledView post →what a career for Gedde Watanabe, btw, who was Long Duk Dong in Sixteen Candles, then Kuni in UHF, & appeared in Boys On The Side, That Thing You Do!, Mulan, Armageddon, Alfie, The Onion Movie, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and oh yeah SEVEN SEASONS OF ER
unlabelledView post →Watching a movie with the 10 year old. We landed on Sixteen Candles because it’s rated PG. Whelp….dad completely forgot about the language and the shower scene like 10 minutes in. Whoops.
unlabelledView post →#Top31DavidBowie #MusicSky #MusicChallenge No. 9: Young Americans It's possible that the first time I heard the title track of Bowie's 1975 album was when it was featured in the 1984 film "Sixteen Candles." I've loved it ever since. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO6O...
unlabelledView post →#80sTop30 #MusicChallenge No. 29: True This classic by Spandau Ballet made it to No. 1 in Canada, Ireland and the UK, and top 10 in many other countries, including Australia and the US. Heard in the movie "Sixteen Candles." www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR8D...
unlabelledView post →Sixteen Candles (1984) #FilmSky 🎥 Date rape scene played for laughs and one of the most offensive Asian caricatures committed to film.
unlabelledView post →#MusicChallenge #ArtistFave15 #ThompsonTwins 10. If You Were Here The song played during the last scene of the iconic Sixteen Candles film is as 80s as it gets... youtu.be/po2ahzuziEw
unlabelledView post →My twenty year-old daughter and her partner watching Sixteen Candles last night. Me: I loved that movie when I was a teenager. Daughter: LONG DUK DONG?!?!?! Me: Ok yes, it had some problematic moments Daughter: THE "HERO" GAVE HIS BLACKED-OUT GIRLFRIEND-- Me: A lot of problematic moments
unlabelledView post →But Meatballs remains a pretty warm, pretty funny teenaged comedy that has aged pretty well. And I definitely can't say that about every movie I loved in the '80s. (Wink-wink Sixteen Candles.)
unlabelledView post →Prosecutors face suspension in wrongful conviction arson case based on (1) failing to disclose evidence that defendant's cousin may have had a motive for setting the fire; & (2) email comparing the cousin to Long Duk Dong from the film "Sixteen Candles": masslawyersweekly.com/2025/09/26/p...
unlabelledView post →#JulyYouAreASong #MusicChallenge 9: A song from a drive-in movie Sixteen Candles - The Crests I can imagine watching American Graffiti at a drive-in movie, and this song is playing in the Mel’s Drive-in scene, so… youtu.be/NlXlZb18F20?...
unlabelledView post →Hoomom hates for the fun to end because we could keep going & will again, but Hoomom just loves this scene in the 80's movie Sixteen Candles and LOVES this song! It was perfect! So we'll end if If You Were Here by the Thompson Twins #paws4music www.youtube.com/watch?v=po2a...
unlabelledView post →We finished her Sweet Sixteen by watching Sixteen Candles 🎂
unlabelledView post →2025 watch #31: Pretty in Pink (1986) I was wondering where Duckie was in Sixteen Candles, turns out he's in a completely different movie. Harry Dean Stanton elevates everything he's in, as usual.
unlabelledView post →#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 275 An almost daily catchphrase, quote, or meme to inspire or entertain you: "I can't believe this. They fucking forgot my birthday." — Samantha Baker ("Sixteen Candles", 1984) Don’t You (Forget about me) - Simple Minds (Also a John Hughes Movie)
unlabelledView post →#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthofMusic #Musicsky #Connections A song that is connected in some way to the previous day Day 29: "Don't You (Forget About Me)" (Simple Minds) From the film "Sixteen Candles," which is also written and directed by John Hughes youtu.be/CdqoNKCCt7A?...
unlabelledView post →Found a couple horror paperbacks today while I was out and about. Do I have time to read them? Probably not, though Sixteen Candles will probably be a quick one. Judging by the cover it looks like it deviates a bit from the movie if I remember correctly.
unlabelledView post →I watched a documentary about John Hughes last night. Apparently The Breakfast Club was intended as a cheap made for TV movie - hence written for a single set. But sudden success with Sixteen Candles meant a bunch of Hughes scripts got picked up and got made into proper films.
unlabelledView post →Several of the characters in Sixteen Candles should have been arrested at the end of the film.
unlabelledView post →I find almost all of those movie coinciding with my teenage years completely unwatchable. Weird Science. The Breakfast Club. Sixteen Candles. Ferris Bueller. Pretty in Pink. All of them just garbage to me now.
unlabelledView post →Sixteen Candles (1984 480p). Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age teen comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. Written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut, it was the first in a string of films Hughes would direct, centering on teenage life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Candles 
unlabelledView post →The cake in the movie Sixteen Candles is made of cardboard.
unlabelledView post →I always think of Clementine but yes exactly. And I think it's a trope in a lot of John Hughes movies and imitators but especially especially in Sixteen Candles, a film I loathe
unlabelledView post →douchebro culture was so ingrained that we had the movie Sixteen Candles and the culminating joke for one arc is a roofie-fueled date rape where she falls for the guy afterward AND THAT WAS A HUGHES MOVIE
unlabelledView post →P.K. And The Kid (1987) IMDB score 5.3/10 "Molly Ringwald. One of Hollywood's hottest, teen-age actresses." is such a Time Magazine quote to have on a movie filmed in 1983 when she was 15 years old. It was shelved until 1987 after her fame grew through Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club.
unlabelledView post →Sixteen Candles So many problematic moments in that movie.
unlabelledView post →#AprilFilmChallenge #MovieSky Day 3 ~ A movie you like with a number in the title 📽 Sixteen Candles 🎂 I loved this Thompson Twins song on the soundtrack youtu.be/po2ahzuziEw?...
unlabelledView post →St. Elmo's Fire is... not a good movie. But it IS a FUN movie. Certainly NOT in the same class as The Big Chill and Diner. It is often listed with The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, & Sixteen Candles, as a Brat Pack movie. But it's not even in their class. It's just FUN.
unlabelledView post →John Cusack is 60. I can just about accept that, though jeesh. But here’s The Guardian and his top 20 films. No Pushing Tin. No Hot Tub Time Machine. No Sixteen Candles! Not even trying www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
unlabelledView post →Dan Levy and Noah Reid recreate movie romance scenes - Sixteen Candles, Notting Hill and Casablanca for Entertainment Weekly's Schitt's Creek digital cover shoot. Published March 25, 2020 Shot January 2020 📸 Brooke Nipar for Entertainment Weekly
unlabelledView post →Watching "Sixteen Candles" before it leaves Netflix 🇨🇦 on Wednesday. Michael Schoeffling you will always be famous to me
unlabelledView post →"What’s the first John Cusack movie you remember seeing?" I feel like it was Better Off Dead on VHS, but it might have been Sixteen Candles before I knew who he was. BOD was the one that made me pay attention though and had me going back for The Sure Thing and Natty Gann and then becoming a fan.
unlabelledView post →The first film I ever saw Joan Cusack in was Sixteen Candles and she was hysterical.
unlabelledView post →#FilmHistory On this day 1984, Sixteen Candles hit theaters—marking the directorial debut of John Hughes. Hughes was inspired to write the film after spotting a photo of Molly Ringwald, before ever meeting her & Hughes also wrote the role of “Farmer Ted” specifically for Anthony Michael Hall.
unlabelledView post →A Film to Check Out! A tribute to 80's high school films. You get the Sixteen Candles n The Breakfast Club vibes that centers around an eccentric Gay teen named Chance who navigates HS in all the things that comes with it. It's a film about identity, sexuality, n creativity. ✍️Russel P. Marleau
unlabelledView post →#SportsMovieMadness 8/20 sports fashion Sixteen Candles (1984) (or any movie by) Director: John Hughes Apparently the Chicago native was a big Cubs fan Sam's little brother Mike:
unlabelledView post →I will hear almost no criticism of this movie, but on the flip side cannot make it through even five minutes of “Sixteen Candles.”
unlabelledView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge Day 25 - Movie or TV character who is a geek --Literally The Geek, Sixteen Candles
unlabelledView post →It’s a great day to watch a brat pack movie! So, bc not everyone is a maladaptive nostalgia fiend like myself, I would gently encourage watching the following movies to have a full grasp on If You Leave. 📼 -Sixteen Candles -The Breakfast Club -Pretty In Pink -St Elmo’s Fire
unlabelledView post →I find myself thinking that if y'all ever get to the movie Sixteen Candles that it might break thru that ranking.
unlabelledView post →I watched Sixteen Candles tonight for the first time in a long time, and my god, has that movie aged poorly.
unlabelledView post →NEW EPISODE of GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC is live! The delightful @lanikaps.bsky.social joins us to discuss John Hughes’s “Sixteen Candles” — and her wonderful book “Nora Ephron at the Movies”: pod.link/1274489817/e...
unlabelledView post →This was a fun way to discover my husband was completely unfamiliar with the movie Sixteen Candles. 😮
unlabelledView post →choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. one film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. GIFs only. #filmsky #movies Day 17 - Sixteen Candles
unlabelledView post →Now Watching: Sixteen Candles Written and Directed By: John Hughes I watch this movie every now and then I always completely forget that there is some horrendous things in this film that is just played for laughs. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →This was on a list I saw of vampire movies with the vibe of the “Little Less Sixteen Candles” music video so my expectations are High
unlabelledView post →Empire, Breakfast Club & Sixteen Candles, with apologies to Empire, Purple Rain (great album, not best movie), and Heathers.
unlabelledView post →Pretty in Pink. I hate that it’s a foregone conclusion that Andie will end up with one of these greasy losers (including Duckie? ESPECIALLY Duckie) even though she’s well on her way towards self-actualization. I can take the wish fulfillment in Sixteen Candles because it’s a birthday movie, but
unlabelledView post →No. If we're gonna watch a Molly Ringwald movie it'll be Sixteen Candles.
unlabelledView post →Sixteen Candles was a movie I loved as a kid and was horrified by as an adult
unlabelledView post →Yes. I was (one of the few) bothered by that scene in RotNerds even back then, but I was pretty shocked when I very recently rewatched Sixteen Candles. Oh. My. God does that movie NOT hold up for SO many reasons...
unlabelledView post →10 comedies to get to know me movie edition (In alphabetical order) Airplane! Dumb and Dumber The Emporer's New Groove A Fish Called Wanda Joe vs The Volcano The Mitchells vs The Machines Sixteen Candles Spaceballs The Thin Man What's Up Doc? #FilmBlueSky
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