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 ...

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 ...

Bruce Handy’s “Hollywood High” is an entertaining history of the films that emerged after teenagers became a cultural force.

"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 seconds into Sixteen Candles, we see the Baker House ... Schoeffling), reluctantly holds a house party after the school dance — given no other choice by his girlfriend, Caroline Mulford ...

One of the most iconic films of the 1980s, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, will be showing at the Cameo.  I adore John Hughes’ films.  There is something timeless about his films that continues to resonate ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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