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Sixteen Candles

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Synopsis

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

Cast

  • Molly Ringwald
  • Justin Henry
  • Michael Schoeffling
  • Haviland Morris
  • Gedde Watanabe
  • Anthony Michael Hall
  • Paul Dooley
  • Carlin Glynn
  • Blanche Baker
  • Edward Andrews

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63

Screenwriter John Hughes, making his directing debut, is at his best when he empathizes with the sensitivity in the ugly-duckling Ringwald and Hall characters. [04 May 1984]

Metacritic review by Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
50

There are individual sequences alternately amusing and touching. [08 May 1984]

Metacritic review by Jay Scott
Jay Scott
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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The best teenage comedy since last year's Risky Business.

Metacritic review by Gene Siskel
Gene Siskel
Chicago Tribune