Sixteen Candles
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings
- Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald
- Summary: Nothing seems to be going right for Samantha (Ringwald) on her sixteenth birthday. Her family forgets her birthday, she's in love with the school jock who doesn't seem to know she exists and the school nerd won't leave her alone.
- Director: John Hughes
- Genre(s): Comedy, Romance
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78Molly Ringwald is radiant here as the eternal teen looking for love.
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75This is a fresh and cheerful movie with a goofy sense of humor and a good ear for how teenagers talk.
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50There are individual sequences alternately amusing and touching. [08 May 1984]
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30Hughes invokes the classical unities of time, place, and plot symmetry, yet he trashes his careful structure every time he needs a gag - destroying the integrity of his characters, shattering the plausibility of his situations.
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