Additional information for Sixteen Candles, which has a domestic theatrical release set for May 4, 1984. The film is being distributed by Universal Pictures and has not yet been rated. Sixteen Candles has a total running time of 93 minutes.
15
UK
NC-16
Singapore
L
Iceland
PG
Australia
Atp
Argentina
PT
Peru
M/12
Portugal
K-12
Finland
12
Norway
13
Spain
Btl
Sweden
R
USA
PA
Canada
93min
Se busca novio
Argentina
Se busca novio
Mexico
Se busca novio
Peru
Se busca novio
Uruguay
Se busca novio
Venezuela
Födelsedagen
Finland
Födelsedagen
Sweden
Å, for en bursdag
Norway
16 Candles
International
16 Primaveras
Portugal
Abefest for viderekommende
Denmark
But 16 Hiyeeti
Israel
Das darf man nur als Erwachsener
West Germany
Dieciséis velas
Spain
Gatinhas e Gatões
Brazil
L'amour à 16 ans
Canada
Seize bougies pour Sam
France
Sixteen candles - un compleanno da ricordare
Italy
Synttärit
Finland
Szesnascie swieczek
Poland
Tizenhat szál gyertya
Hungary
May 04, 1984
USA
August 15, 1984
France
October 26, 1984
Sweden
December 13, 1984
Australia
December 21, 1984
Finland
January 10, 1985
Norway
February 14, 1985
Hong Kong
March 23, 1985
Japan
April 27, 1985
Italy
September 19, 1985
Argentina
October 17, 1985
Uruguay
August 29, 1986
Denmark
June 05, 1987
Spain
April 29, 1988
Portugal
February 04, 2012
Canada
This is Samantha Baker and today is her 16th birthday. The problem is, nobody remembers.
16 Candles. And you're invited to the party.
It's the time of your life that may last a lifetime.
When you're just sixteen anything can happen!
Awkward high school sophomore Samantha "Sam" Baker (Molly Ringwald) struggles to get through the day of her 16th birthday, which her entire family forgets because her older sister, Ginny (Blanche Baker), is getting married the next day. She is also plagued by her ongoing infatuation with the very popular and very attractive senior, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). Her day at school fares no better when she finds out that her completed "sex quiz," which she surreptitiously slipped to her friend, never reached her (and, unbeknownst to either of them, was picked up by Jake Ryan himself). Sam panics as the quiz contains personal information, including the fact that she is a virgin and is saving herself for Jake. At the same time, Samantha doesn't know that Jake does have the hots for her as well, but is too insecure to even talk to her.Samantha has a whole new set of problems when she arrives home to find that both sets of grandparents are staying at the Baker home for the duration of the wedding visit. On top of it all, one set of grandparents brings along bizarre Chinese exchange student Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe). Sam's grandparents force her to take him along to her school dance that night and, to Sam's amazement, it takes "The Donger" only five minutes to find an unlikely girlfriend the tallish, large-breasted jock, Marlene, promptly nicknamed "Lumberjack."A running subplot involves a geeky freshman, (Anthony Michael Hall) who continually (and unsuccessfully) tries to bed his love interest, Sam, to satisfy a bet with his friends. The character is referred to on several occasions in the movie as either "Ted" or "Farmer Ted", but he is credited solely as "the Geek."In the auto-shop room during the dance, Sam and Ted begin talking and Sam confesses her love for Jake. Upon hearing this, he tells her that Jake had been asking about her at the dance, and they agree that Sam should just go and talk to him. As she's leaving, he reveals the wager to Sam, who, in her excited state, agrees to loan him her panties to help him win a dozen floppy disks.Later (after a peepshow of Sam's panties for $1 admission, which she does not find out about until the next day), Ted and his equally unwelcome friends, Cliff (Darren Harris) and Bryce (John Cusack), crash the senior after-party at Jake's house during which the entire house is completely trashed. A small group of beer-chugging jocks pin Farmer Ted under a glass table and abduct his two other geek friends in which they take them for a joyride in the trunk of their car before releasing them unharmed.At night's end, Jake finds Ted trapped under the table and they begin to talk. Jake inquires further about Sam; Ted explains the situation. Jake makes a deal with Ted: If Ted lets Jake keep Sam's panties, then he will let Ted drive home his inebriated, stuck-up, prom queen girlfriend, Carolyn Mulford (Haviland Morris), in Jake's father's Rolls Royce. They never get home because the very drunk Carolyn makes moves onto Ted while he is driving before passing out. Ted the Geek takes the opporunity to drive over to Cliff and Bryce's house to ask them to take a photo of him with Carolyn together in the back seat of the car.At Samantha's house the next morning, after some ensuing madness with all her obnoxious relatives, the family eventually makes up before the wedding and apologizes for forgetting her birthday. They drive to the church where a very nervous Giny takes a few too many tranquilizers and causes a scene during the entire wedding cerimony.Meanwhile, Jake goes off looking for Samantha at her house only to find Long Duck Dong there getting over a bad hangover who tells him where Sam went. Jake finds Carolyn and Ted the Geek passed out in the back seat of the Rolls Royce in a nearby parking lot where he uses the excuse of finding them together to break up with Carolyn (who had surprisingly fallen for Ted, and thus doesn't mind the break-up very much).Afterward, Jake drives to the church just in time to meet an incredulous Sam after her sister's wedding. Here, Jake and Samantha finally meet face to face for the first time in which Jake invites her over to his house rather to Ginny's wedding reception. Samantha agrees.The movie concludes with Jake and Samantha sharing a kiss over a birthday cake with 16 candles.
John Hughes
Director(s)
John Hughes
Writer(s)
Hilton A. Green
producer
Michelle Manning
associate producer
Ned Tanen
executive producer
Producer(s)
Ira Newborn
Composer(s)
Samantha Baker
Molly Ringwald
Mike Baker
Justin Henry
Jake Ryan
Michael Schoeffling
Caroline Mulford
Haviland Morris
Long Duk Dong
Gedde Watanabe
The Geek
Anthony Michael Hall
Jim Baker
Paul Dooley
Brenda Baker
Carlin Glynn
Ginny Baker
Blanche Baker
Howard Baker
Edward Andrews
Dorothy Baker
Billie Bird
Grandma Helen
Carole Cook
Grandpa Fred
Max Showalter
Randy
Liane Curtis
Bryce
John Cusack
Cliff
Darren Harris
Marlene 'Lumberjack'
Deborah Pollack
Ray Gun Geek #1
Ross Berkson
Jimmy Montrose
Jonathan Chapin
Geek Girl #1
Joan Cusack
Reverend
Brian Doyle-Murray
Female D.J.
Bekka Eaton
Caroline's Shower Double (as Paula Elser)
Pamela Elser
Ray Gun Geek #2
Steven Farber
Robin
Jami Gertz
Freshman
Frank Howard
Sara Baker
Cinnamon Idles
Rudy
John Kapelos
Irene
Marge Kotlisky
Rock
Tony Longo
Jock
Steve Monarque
Bruno
Bill Orsi
Patty
Beth Ringwald
Organist
Zelda Rubinstein
Bus Driver
Dennis Vero
Tracy
Elaine Wilkes
High School Student (uncredited)
Elizabeth Cox
Extra (uncredited)
Sven Granlund
Boy with Coronet (uncredited)
Andy Hirsch
Geek at Dance (uncredited)
Stephan Meyers
A young girl's "sweet sixteenth" birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible.
Director(s)
Writer(s)
producer
Michelle Manning
associate producer
Ned Tanen
executive producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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