If you loved To Be or Not to Be, try Sixteen Candles

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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To Be or Not to Be

1983 · dir. Alan Johnson

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Sixteen Candles

1984 · dir. John Hughes

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to To Be or Not to Be, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Sixteen Candles is

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.

If you loved To Be or Not to Be, try Sixteen Candles

To Be or Not to Be

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What they share

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