The chunk of hair that ted and jakes girlfriend have with them in the rollsroyce at the end, is clearly a ponytail that is much longer than the hair. While the film is beloved by many, ringwald penned an essay for the. The day goes downhill from there, because of 3 her sisters wedding to a stupid lunkhead, 4 her crush on. Sixteen candles, rape culture, and antiwoman politics. High school sophomore samantha sam baker is hopeful her 16th birthday is the. Page 3 this category is for questions and answers related to sixteen candles.
Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Part of 8 pages of info for the 1984 movie from the award winning 80s movies rewind. Sixteen candles, a movie portraying the turmoil of adolescence, includes sexuality as a major theme. Universal pictures released sixteen candles on may 4, 1984. Sixteen candles is a sweet and funny movie about two of the worst things that can happen to a girl on her sixteenth birthday. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing sixteen candles near you. Other times, a director may release a special cut of the movie on bluray or dvd. Molly was every girls best friend, she was your soulsister.
These had supposedly remained on a tray outside of the car even though dong was careening around at high speeds. Pegged jeans will take you through the 80s and 90s movies past with sixteen candles trailers, vhs covers and more. With an impressive resume of 80s films like the breakfast club, weird science, and pretty in pink, john hughes was a fan of the brat pack, a group of actors and actresses who filled the screens during the decade. Sixteen candles doesnt stop at misogyny and racism. On top of the tray are paper coke cups and burger wrappers.
John hughes directed the film which starred molly ringwald, anthony michael hall, justin henry. It also includes a dose of homophobia in the form of slurs. A road trip in honor of sixteen candles 30th birthday. With racism, homophobia and sexual misconduct, sixteen.
Her family, focused on the wedding of her older sister, ginny, forgets her birthday. In sixteen candles, its teenager samantha sam bakers birthday, but it comes the day after her sisters wedding and everyone including her grandparents forget all about it. Michael schoeffling was born on december 10, 1960 in wilkesbarre, pennsylvania, usa as michael e. She loves the dreamy jake ryan who just discovered she likes him, but jake has a girlfriend named carolyn. Recently, in 2014, he returned to the big screen for the academy awardnominated foxcatcher starring steve carrell. The geek wakes up in a parking lot with jakes girlfriend. The relationship between the two is doomed since the beginning of the film. His breakout role was in sixteen candles the buttcutt mustve surely helped, which led him to starring in gung ho in 1986, opposite michael keaton, and uhf in 1989, costarring weird. First, sam calls ted a gay slur while theyre on the bus. Gede watanabe followed up sixteen candles with many film and tv roles. Sixteen candles, starring ringwald, michael schoeffling as her love interest, jake ryan, and anthony michael hall as a twerpy freshman with a big crush, premiered nearly 30 years ago, on may 4. At the end of this long day at school, samantha comes home to discover that her paternal grandparents have taken over her bedroom, and her maternal grandparents are checking out her womanly figure. The sixteen candles scene echoes an even weirder scene in revenge of the nerds, when the.
In case you dont know the plot and that obviously makes you a person who hates movies, samantha baker molly ringwald has just turned sixteen and expects it to be. Sixteen candles 1984 film summary and movie synopsis. Morris was 24 when she made her film debut in 1984s reckless, the same year she played jakes beautiful, bored girlfriend in sixteen candles. Sixteen candles 1984 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers. Sixteen candles cast and crew cast photos and info.
If you disagree or have additional info, please update us. See what the sixteen candles cast, including molly ringwald and anthony michael hall, have been up to since the john hughes comedy movie hit theaters 35 years ago, on may 4, 1984. Yes, i am jake ryan and i am nothing more than a fantasy dreamed up for this silly movie, but girls and women everywhere worship me and want a man like me. Meet cast of beloved movie sixteen candles then and now. Sixteen candles is a 1984 american comingofage comedy film starring molly ringwald, michael schoeffling and anthony michael hall. The movieclips channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. When sixteen candles comes up in conversation, most people consider it a sweet film about teenagers in the 80s. Sixteen candles cast members open up about that date. But in the years following the films release, the actor who played him all but. The 1984 hit movie sixteen candles, starring molly ringwald, is a huge favorite of mine. In both cases, the language is used to intentionally feminize people as an insult. Hire a few maids and contractors and the house is back to normal. Morris portrayed caroline, the most popular girl at school and jakes girlfriend. A girl s sweet sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
Sixteen candles is a rite of passage movie for most girls and to this day i still watch it on my birthday and pine for a guy as gorgeous as michael schoefflings jake ryan. Page 2 this category is for questions and answers related to sixteen candles. In 1999 he portrayed bill gates for tv movie pirates of silicon valley. Sixteen candles is a 1984 american comingofage comedy film starring molly ringwald, michael schoeffling, and anthony michael hall. This romantic comedy is about an average teenage girl. The goonies, gremlins and theterminator was just some of our most popular 80s movies. In the film, jake michael schoeffling orchestrates a scenario in which the geek anthony michael hall can bed jakes girlfriend, high school villain caroline haviland morris in order to get. See what the sixteen candles cast, including molly ringwald and. Here, jake and samantha finally meet face to face for the first time, and jake invites her over to his house rather than to ginnys wedding reception. He is an actor, known for sixteen candles 1984, mermaids 1990 and wild hearts cant be broken 1991. Sometimes, there will be several versions of a movie floating about on cable, tv or video etc. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films.
After a wild, raving party at jakes house, his girlfriend caroline is cripplingly drunk. He is perhaps best known for voicing the character of ling in the 1998 animated film mulan and its 2004 sequel, mulan ii as well as playing long duk dong in the 1984 film sixteen candles. Only an 80s expert can get 3035 on this sixteen candles. The question missed by the most players only 60% got it right was. The relationship between the two is doomed since the beginning. A team of editors takes feedback from our visitors to keep trivia as up to date and as accurate as possible. When long duk dong pulls up in front of samanthas house to drop her off before going to jakes party, there is a drivein restaurant tray attached to the passengerside door of the car. Sixteen candles turns 30 whatever happened to jake ryan. In an article published in salon, amy benfer considers whether the film directly condones date rape. Sam, crying in the hall, overhears that jakes girlfriend wants to go to jakes house after the dance. A girls sweet sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. Rather than drive her home himself, jake hands caroline off to ted and tells his friend to have fun with her. For comic relief, cue joan cusack trying to drink from a water fountain without her headgear getting in the way.
I take her away and we end up in a nice house, in front of a large window, sitting around a birthday cake glowing with 16 candles. Sixteen candles 1984 movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers. Its a short scene that takes place in the cafeteria. Its teenager samantha sam bakers birthday, but it comes the day after her sisters wedding and everyone including her grandparents forget all. The kind of adorable premise of sixteen candles is that molly ringwald samantha baker wakes up one morning as a sixteenyearold woman who still hasnt yet grown the breasts she wants.
This might be the highest percentage of 100% scores ever. Her family, however, forgets her birthday because of the chaos surrounding her older sister ginnys upcoming wedding. Ted, is a geek who is really into sam, but guess what, she isnt into him. Ringwald and hall were only 15 years old when they shot the movie, which propelled them to insane popularity.
The following versions of sixteen candles are apparently real. High school sophomore samantha sam baker struggles to get through the day on her 16th birthday, which her entire family has forgotten about because her older sister, ginny, is getting married the next day. The 60yearold actress played jakes girlfriend caroline mulford. Sixteen candles is a 1984 american coming of age comedy film starring molly ringwald, michael schoeffling, and anthony michael hall. Few movies encompass that sentiment better than the favorite movie of every teenage girl in the 80s and 90s, sixteen candles. After the party scene, jake tells ted that his girlfriend caroline. With molly ringwald, anthony michael hall, justin henry, michael schoeffling. Molly ringwald and cast sixteen candles 35 years after the movie. Sixteen candles 1984 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Sixteen candles no longer sets a gold standard for teen romance movies as the netflix original movie to all the boys ive loved before follows a similar plot where a girl falls for a popular high school boy while a nerdier guy vies for her affections, but without the presence of racism, homophobia, or sexual misconduct to further its storyline. Sixteen candles is a movie that won over the hearts of the millions of people who grew up with it. Sixteen candles interesting facts page 3 movies qt. For example, there was a scene that is only shown when the movie is played on television. Recasting sixteen candles journeys in classic film. Sam molly ringwald and jake michael schoeffling were the. Later, at the party at jakes house, ted hurls another gay slur at his friends. Back in the gym, the geek continues making the moves on sam. Sixteen candles 1984 the deadly dolls house of horror nonsenses the shortening john hughes is regarded as a master filmmaker when it comes to teen comingofage movies, from ferris buellers day off, to the breakfast club, pretty in pink, some kind of.
With popular films like the home alone film series and 101 dalmatians, were celebrating his popular 80s classic, sixteen candles. Sixteen candles 1984 the deadly dolls house of horror. Tags anthony michael hall church comedy drunk farmer ted hair headgear john hughes parking lot. The movie concludes with jake and samantha sharing a kiss over a birthday cake with 16 candles. Sixteen candles is a 1984 film written and directed by john hughes, the first of his teen comedies. Sixteen candles is een film uit 1984 onder regie van john hughes. Sixteen candles there is another website totally dedicated to all of the john hughes movies. It stars molly ringwald as samantha sam baker, a girl facing numerous emotional challenges on her sixteenth birthday. Sixteen candles was filmed in chicagos north shore, in skokie and highland park, illinois. Maybe it wasnt called rape back then, but sixteen candles blatantly glamorizes nonconsensual sex between a sober guy and a drunk girl.
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