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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Sixteen Candles |
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Molly Ringwald plays a typical teen girl in Sixteen Candles. We first meet her on her 16th birthday and her family has totally forgotten it in the midst of her sister's wedding. Seeking comfort in friends at school, Jake Ryan the resident hot guy finds a note telling of her love for him. He being the more sophisticated senior to Molly's sophomore character, he tries to find more. On his quest to find more he meets a freshman Anthony Micheal Hall who is in love with Samantha and is willing to help Jake get her. Nothing really evolves untill the dance that night. After the dance Jake has a party, where he once again talks to the freshman who tells more and gives out Samanthas phone number. Jake goes to the house the next day, Sam isnt home so he meets her in the final scenes and he makes up for her family forgetting her birthday.
--Marissa, Resident Scholar
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Today is Samantha Baker's (Ringwald) sixteenth birthday, so everything should be special and different. But her sister is about to get married, and in all the excitement, Samantha's family forgets about her birthday! The day goes from bad to worse, as Samantha obsesses about Jake Ryan (Schoeffling), the most popular senior in the school, and has trouble avoiding the freshman geek (Hall) who is after her. Fortunately for Samantha, Mike is getting tired of his homecoming queen bombshell, Caroline (Morris); unfortunately, she has to babysit Chinese foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe), who has been living with her grandparents. This 1984 film is one of writer-director John Hughes's better teen stories -- sweet and hilarious, though some of the foreign student humor is a bit tasteless.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Samantha Baker is having a bad day. It's her sixteenth birthday, but her family forgets because the very next day is her sister's wedding. Sam also tries to get intimate with her crush, Jake Ryan, but constantly loses her nerve at the last minute.
--Katie Malone, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Sixteen Candles |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Kids growing up/acting up?
Yes
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- wedding preparations
Age group
- trouble in high school
Sexing?
- guy chasing
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- student
Age:
- a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- red
Hair type
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) skinny
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- a teen
Profession/status:
- student
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample chest and buttocks
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Midwest
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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