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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 93

Budget: $6,500,000

Revenue: $23,686,027

Language: en

Webpage: -

Release Info


  •  PG

  • 1984-08-15
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  • 1985-04-27
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  • 1987-06-05
     13

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Alternative Titles

  • Gatinhas e Gatões
  • Seize Bougies Pour Sam
Content Score: 100

6.8/10 (119 votes)

Overview

Samantha's life is going downhill fast. She has a crush on the most popular boy in school, but the geekiest boy in school has a crush on her. Her sister's getting married, and with all the excitement the rest of her family forgets her sixteenth birthday!

Tagline

When you're just sixteen anything can happen!

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Director: John Hughes
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Cast

Molly Ringwald

Molly Ringwald
as Samantha Baker

Anthony Michael Hall

Anthony Michael Hall
as The Geek

John Cusack

John Cusack
as Bryce

Gedde Watanabe

Gedde Watanabe
as Long Duk Dong

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A review by John Chard

I've never bagged a babe. I'm not a stud.

It's Samantha Baker's 16th birthday and her family are so wrapped up in her sisters impending wedding, they have completely forgotten Sam's big day. Not only that but she has the hots for school hunk Jake Ryan who, apparently doesn't know she even exists. Her existence, however, is noted by freshman Ted "The Geek" who lusts after her at every opportunity. Being 16 really isn't all it's cracked up to be, maybe?

John Hughes directs his first feature film and sets out his marker for the career that was to come for the astute observer of teen angst an... read the rest.