Sixteen Candles

Suburban Chicago, birthday candles on a forgotten cake. A high school hallway separates Samantha from popular Jake, and nerdy Ted from rejection. Hughes pins adolescent vulnerability to the wall.

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John Hughes directed Sixteen Candles in 1984. See John Hughes's full filmography, where to start with John Hughes, or where to go after you've seen everything by John Hughes.

Sixteen Candles was released in 1984 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 93 minutes.