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Sixteen Candles
When Samantha turned sixteen, she expected her birthday to be fun instead reverse was the case with the day ending with her all ridden up.
22 February 1928, Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
20 December 1956, New York City, New York, USA
2 March 1966, Northbrook, Illinois, USA
27 October 1964, Roseville, California, USA
11 October 1962, New York City, New York, USA
10 December 1960, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
30 November 1966, Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 May 1933, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
28 February 1908, Pocatello, Idaho, USA
26 June 1955, Ogden, Utah, USA
7 August 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 05, 2014
High school is high school no matter what the date, and Hughes ensures that the constancies of that age remain unchanged.
September 25, 2011
A high school film just smart enough to be special and bad enough that it could be improved upon.
June 24, 2006
Sly humour and an appreciative ear for the demotic improv of teenage chat completes an attractive package.
May 20, 2003
Most of the the movie is cheerful and light, showcasing Mr. Hughes's knack for remembering all those aspects of middle-class American adolescent behavior that anyone else might want to forget.
July 18, 2007
As the girl, Molly Ringwald is natural and appealing, but she's lost in a world of blunt, vicious caricatures.
January 01, 1984
Some of the material works marvelously well, but the stuff that doesn't takes the movie down with it.
October 23, 2004
A sweet and funny movie about two of the worst things that can happen to a girl on her sixteenth birthday.
February 13, 2012
...a sporadically amusing yet hopelessly uneven endeavor that simply isn't in the same league as Hughes' later classics.
July 18, 2007
There's also a darkly handsome high school heartbreak kid (Michael Schoeffling), a merciful brisk pace, some quick humor (visual and verbal), and a solid music track.
January 02, 2011
Racy, drunken, hilarious '80s high school comedy.
