Sixteen Candles Page #3

Synopsis: Samantha's life is going downhill fast. The sixteen-year-old has a crush on the most popular boy in school, and the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her birthday! Add all this to a pair of horrendously embarrassing grandparents, a foreign exchange student named Long Duk Dong, and we have the makings of a hilarious journey into young womanhood.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): John Hughes
Production: MCA Universal Home Video
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
PG
Year:
1984
93 min
4,284 Views


Do you know

Samantha Baker?

Sophomore, right?

Yeah. What do

you think of her?

I don't.

Would you ever

go out with her?

Depends on how much

you paid me.

She's not ugly.

There's nothin'

there, man.

It's not ugly.

It's just... void.

You know what I mean?

There's somethin'

about her.

I do independent study

with her. I catch her

lookin' at me a lot.

It's kinda cool, the way

she's always lookin' at me.

Maybe she's retarded.

I'm bein' serious, okay?

She looks at me like

she's in love with me.

Jake,

she's a child.

So?

So what're you

gonna do with her?

She's obviously

too young

to party serious.

Maybe I'm interested

in more than a party.

Come on, Jake. You talk

like you're hard up.

You got Caroline.

Now she's a woman.

It's unbelievable.

I swear to God, Caroline Mulford

had to flunk about nine grades.

[ Friend ]

Truly makes me ill.

[ Samantha ]

She's perfect.

Practically

impossible to cut up.

She's supposedly real sweet.

Brother's deaf, and everybody

in the world worships her.

[ Samantha ]

And she's going with Jake.

Oh, I'm gonna kill myself.

My man.

"[ Band Instruments

Practicing, Off-key ]

[ Kids Chattering ]

I loathe the bus.

[ Noise Subsides ]

[ Sighing ]

There has to be a more

dignified mode of transportation.

I hope you get a car for

your birthday, and a license.

[ Scoffs ]

Let's not hold our breath.

[ Space Guns Firing ]

[ Both Chuckle ]

[ Together ]

Score... a direct hit.

[ Together ]

On second thought.

"[ Off-key Instruments

Continue ]

"[ Kazoos Playing Brahms's

"Hungarian Dance No. 5" ]

[ Boys ] 'Hey"

[ Driver ]

Move it.

Call me, okay?

You call me first.

Tell me what happened at home.

I can tell you

right now. Nothing.

Will you quit feeling sorry

for yourself? It's bad

for your complexion!

"[ "Theme from Dragnet" ]

How's it goin'?

How's what going?

You know, things,

life, whatnot.

Life is not whatnot,

and it's none of your business.

[ Book Pages Ruffling ]

Hmm. So you goin'

to the New Faces

dance tonight, or...

That's also none

of your business.

[ Sniffing,

Clears Throat ]

Are you inhibited

about dancing in public?

I mean,

you don't have to dance.

Maybe you could just stand

there with me and my dudes

and just be you, and... -

Sounds major.

[ Sniffing ]

So, I mean,

what's the story?

I mean, you got a guy, or...

Yes, three big ones,

and they lust wimp blood.

So quit bugging me,

or I'll sic them

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John Hughes

An American filmmaker. Beginning as an author of humorous essays and stories for National Lampoon, he went on to write, produce and sometimes direct some of the most successful live-action comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s. Most of Hughes's work is set in the Chicago metropolitan area. He is best known for his coming-of-age teen comedy films which often combined magic realism with honest depictions of suburban teenage life. more…

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