Monday, 5 October 2015

Not as cute as it seems

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Written & directed by John Hughes this film stars Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. Waking up to find she feels no different on the morning of her sixteenth birthday our protagonist also finds her family has forgotten her birthday too.

This film does a good job of capturing that teenage insecurity when it comes to love and sex even if the plot is a little generic at times. Strangely for a John Hughes film there are sub plots with some really lazy racism and date rape vibes. If you can look past the flaws this is still a decent coming of age film and fits in well with John Hughes other films.


3/5

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