Sixteen Candles Resources
Websites
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Molly Ringwald's real-life sixteenth birthday wish must have been to be an actor, a singer, and an author, because all of those things have come true.
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The Geek, Anthony Michael Hall, has a website, too. But only dorks still have links to their MySpace page.
Book or TV Adaptations
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With The Breakfast Club, Molly Ringwald would later become the de factor leader of the Brat Pack. You can read about how that impacted a generation of fellow brats in this book.
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Is John Hughes a genius? Writer Kirk Honeycutt thinks so. And Judd Nelson gave him a blurb, so it must be true.
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People who saw Sixteen Candles in theaters are now old enough to be writers writing about Sixteen Candles.
Articles and Interviews
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Film critic Eric Snider explores the timeless appeal of Sixteen Candles. It helps that all the 80's music is still popular.
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Roger Ebert considered Long Duk Dong to be "high comedy." Two thumbs down, Roger.
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In the Merv Griffin video below, Ringwald talks about attending summer camp, like a normal, after Sixteen Candles. But it's anything but normal, as we find out in this interview.
Video
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Merv Griffin didn't just create Wheel of Fortune, he also interviewed Molly Ringwald on his talk show.
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Sixteen Candles might be timeless, but this trailer for it is so 80's.
Audio
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NPR explores the stereotype of Long Duk Dong, calling him a "stain" on film history and "'Every Bad Stereotype,' rolled into one character." Tell us how you really feel, guys.
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Molly Ringwald talks with the Moth Radio Hour about Sixteen Candles and going from telling other people's stories to telling her own.
Images
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That's how the trailer describes Sam's dilemma, pictured on the official movie poster. But which one is which?
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We love this vintage-style poster, even if it does give away the ending of the movie. (Psst: it's a happy one.)