Who doesn’t love the movie Sixteen Candles?
Well, especially if you grew up in the 80’s. And you’re a girl. Not that guys don’t watch it, but I think more girls have an attachment to this movie and I apologize if I’ve offended anyone.
If you don’t know this story, it’s about Samantha, a high schooler who starts her sixteenth birthday with not even a fizzle, everyone has forgotten because all focus is on her sister’s upcoming wedding. If it can go wrong, it will, just one thing after another.
We have Sam, played by Molly Ringwald, who feels invisible and is in love with Jake Ryan, the popular hunky guy who is dating a vapid self-centered popular girl who only like the status of the relationship. The cast is rounded out by some other great actors, Anthony Michael Hall, who plays the king of the freshman geeks, John Cusack plays one of his “back up singers”, Paul Dooley plays Sam’s dad and Joan Cusack plays a very small role that you wouldn’t know she was in it if you weren’t looking.
This is one of those movies that no matter what, if you own it, as soon as it comes on tv, you have to watch it. Speaking of owning it, there is a scene in the movie that they show when it’s on tv, but it’s not on the dvd or vhs, it’s the scene where Jake is reading a note that he found, has personal information of Sam’s, in the lunchroom, not on the dvd, what gives?
This is a great movie that makes me nostalgic and happy when I watch it and I could almost quote the movie word for word and there are some great lines in it, there are far too many for me to get started You can relate to some of the mishaps that Sam has, especially as a teenager.
And who among us hasn’t wished that Jake Ryan would come to pick us up, wherever, in his red Porsche and take us back to his house to eat ice cream cake sitting cross legged on the dining room table as he leans in and…
Peaches Prattlings 