“Sixteen Candles” is currently streaming on Netflix as part of the platform’s Milestone Movies curation.

"Sixteen Candles" is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The movie follows Samantha Baker on her 16th birthday, starting with her parents forgetting her big day, as they are busy preparing for her ...

"Sixteen Candles" hit theaters in 1984 ... up on his bulletin board above his computer station… and he wrote this movie," she said. "When it came time to cast it and they said, 'Who do you ...

And finally, you’ve got the bad birthday movies. Think everything from forgotten birthdays, as in “Sixteen Candles,” to cursed gifts that straight-up try to kill you; see Andy Barclay’s ...

“Sixteen Candles was his directorial debut,” she mentioned. “I had done a few movies … I had actually had more experience but I was still only 15 years old so I didn’t have a lot of life ...

Ringwald doesn’t dance around the problematic nature of Long Duk Dong, the Chinese foreign exchange student in Sixteen Candles. Even a New York Times review written shortly after the movie’s ...

Here’s how it works. Japanese-American actor Gedde Watanabe had a prominent role in one of the best high school movies of all time: Sixteen Candles. He made his film debut playing Long Duk Dong ...

the Vacation movies, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles was set in the fictional Illinois town of Shermer, ostensibly a suburb of Chicago. In reality, the movie was shot mainly in ...