Sixteen Candles

Sixteen Candles (1984)
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, and Justin Henry
Written and Directed by: John Hughes
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Grade: A+

This is one of the many classic 80's movies that I love. And, I swear, the best ones have Molly Ringwald. Probably because John Hughes put her in all of his movies and his movies are the best...anyway. This movie is about Samantha (Ringwald), who just turned 16. And although she's not popular and the boy she loves doesn't love her back, she has a feeling that this birthday is going to change everything. It starts out on a horrible note, however, when her entire family forgets her birthday. Her day gets worse at school when she fills out a test about who she has a crush on and the boy she answered accidentally gets it. When the question asked who she liked, she didn't even think about answering Jake Ryan (Henry), the most popular guy in school and totally out of Sam's league. But what she doesn't know is that he secretly likes her, too. He hasn't talked to her because he figured she doesn't like him. But after he sees the test, he thinks it might be possible. On the bus ride home, her birthday, yet again, gets even worse when Sam is ambushed by Farmer Ted (Hall), also known as "The Geek", who is in love with her. After she blows him off, she heads home, after which many things happen, including having to hang out with a weird foreign exchange student, going to the school dance, and, just maybe, getting the guy. Also look out for both Cusack siblings (John as a friend of Farmer Ted's and Joan as a geeky girl), both of whom are extremely young in this film.