Sixteen Candles [Flashback Edition]

Overview

On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Jake (Michael Schoeffling). Moving from Samantha's family home as it's invaded by outre relatives to a high-school dance where nothing seems to go her way, this bittersweet teen comedy traces the hopes and disappointments of not only Samantha, but also a host of incidental but memorable characters, from a hapless Japanese exchange student to a prom queen and a posse of barely pubescent nerds. A climactic party scene at which these various strata of young America overcome their rigid hierarchies sets the stage for resolutions both tender and torrid.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/16/2008
UPC:	0025195018678
Original Release:	1984
Rating:	PG
Source:	UNIVERSAL STUDIOS
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, DTS 5.1-Channel Surround Sound]
Language:	English
Time:	1:33:00
Sales rank:	6,215

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Molly Ringwald	Samantha,Patty
Anthony Michael Hall	Actor
Michael Schoeffling	Jake
Paul Dooley	Jim
Justin Henry	Mike
Liane Curtis	Randy
John Cusack	Bryce,Actor
Haviland Morris	Caroline
Gedde Watanabe	Long Duk Dong
Carlin Glynn	Brenda Baker
Blanche Baker	Ginny
Rick LeFevour	Stunts
Edward Andrews	Howard
Billie Bird	Dorothy
Carole Cook	Helen
Max Showalter	Fred
Darren Harris	Cliff
Deborah Pollack	Lumberjack,Marlene 'Lumberjack'
Ross Berkson	Ray Gun Geek No. 1
Jonathan Chapin	Jimmy Montrose
Brian Doyle-Murray	Reverend
Paula Elser	Shower Double
Steven Farber	Ray Gun Geek No.2
Jami Gertz	Robin
Frank Howard	Freshman
Cinnamon Idles	Sara
John Kapelos	Rudy
Marge Kotlisky	Irene
Tony Longo	Rock
Steve Monarque	Jock
Bill Orsi	Bruno
Zelda Rubinstein	Organist
Dennis Vero	Bus Driver
Elaine Wilkes	Tracy
Henry B. Walthall	Actor
Bekka Eaton	Female D.J.

Technical Credits

John Hughes

John Hughes	Director,Screenwriter
Hilton A. Green	Producer
Ned Tanen	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

In his directorial debut, successful comedy screenwriter John Hughes maps out the insecurities of middle-class adolescence with wit, empathy, and a large cast of enjoyably loopy teen characters. The film made pouty, chic Molly Ringwald a star, and more than 15 years later it isn't hard to see why. Sarcastic one minute, heart on her sleeve the next, she embodies the anxieties of bright but stifled youth the world over. Anthony Michael Hall, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, and host of lesser-known players make the most of their sometimes limited screen time with broad, dead-on comic personae. Heathers would scrawl ironic graffiti across this tender portrait of naïve suburbia a mere five years later, but few films, if any, have since captured its good-hearted charm.