Sixteen Candles

Name: Sixteen Candles
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1984-05-04T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6.745

About 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.

Sixteen Candles (1984) is a comedy film directed by John Hughes. It runs 93 minutes and was released in May 1984.

The film is filed under birthday, teenage crush, nerd, and crush.

Molly Ringwald stars as Samantha Baker, Michael Schoeffling as Jake Ryan, Haviland Morris as Caroline Mulford, and Gedde Watanabe as Long Duk Dong. The screenplay is by John Hughes. It streams on Hulu and YouTube TV in the United States.

She's All That, Pretty in Pink, and My Partner make useful companions to Sixteen Candles, all filed under high school and high school prom. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 2,284 votes and it carries a PG rating.