The classic 80s teen film, "Sixteen Candles," crumbles under the test of time ... Pink” — glorified the Hollywood equivalent image of your local suburban high school. These environments were flooded ...

who then reportedly convinced him to attend acting school. In 1983, director John Hughes, who was making his directorial debut with his teen rom-com Sixteen Candles, handpicked Schoeffling ...

There are plenty of nostalgic '80s high school movies that have aged pretty great, all things considered, but if you have gone back and watched John Hughes' Sixteen Candles as an adult ...

"Sixteen Candles" is celebrating its 40th anniversary ... Audiences then watched as Sam pined for the popular boy in school, while also dodging the advances of a classmate. Originally released ...

Sixteen Candles, his 1984 directorial debut ... In the film, Ringwald played a girl navigating all the ups and downs high school has to offer as she approaches her 16th birthday (which her ...

"I think he married his high school sweetheart and he moved back to Pennsylvania," said Hall. "In the late '80s, he did a movie called Vision Quest after we did Sixteen Candles, and then he ...

which followed the drama around the pursuit of her high school crush on her birthday. Molly Ringwald, John Hughes, Michael Schoeffling on the set of "Sixteen Candles," 1984. Universal/Kobal ...

Schoeffling followed up his breakthrough role in Sixteen Candles by playing a bruising high school wrestler in Vision Quest and later as the romantic lead in Cher's 1990 comedy Mermaids.

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