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Her revealing answers about the extent to which she has “done it” with a boy wind up in the hands of her secret crush, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling). Band posters of Culture Club, Sammy Hagar, and Duran Duran are tacked on the bedroom walls of Samantha and her brother Mike (Justin Henry).
Molly Ringwald in 1994 and in 2024. Molly Ringwald was just 15 years old when she was cast as Sixteen Candles' protagonist Sam, a suburban teen whose family forgets about her 16th birthday amidst the chaos of her older sister's impending wedding.
His Sixteen Candles role as geek sidekick Bryce was only 17-year-old Cusack's second film role, but by the following year, he'd graduated to lead in such films as The Sure Thing and Better Off Dead. By the end of the decade, with Say Anything, he became one of his generation's favorite leading men.
Chicago. In reality, the movie was shot mainly in the real-life Chicago suburbs of Evanston, Skokie, and Highland Park, Ill. Here's where some of the most iconic scenes were filmed.
Over the past couple of decades, John Hughes' Sixteen Candles has been seen in a new light, with many calling out its portrayal of foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong, played by Gedde Watanabe, as racist.