

Sixteen Candles
Turning sixteen isn't easy, when you've fallen in love... for the first time.
With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. Meanwhile, she must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy Ted, who is unfortunately the only boy in school who seems to take an interest in her.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $6.5M
- Box office
- $23.7M
- Language
- English
- high school
- birthday
- nerd
- convertible
- crush
- teenage crush
- exchange student
- night vision goggles
- sweet sixteen
- chastity
- teenage angst
- high school romance
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG4 May 1984
- TheatricalAMC Exclusive Re-release13 Feb 2011
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG13 Dec 1984
BrazilBR
- Theatrical144 Jul 1984
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1221 Dec 1984
FranceFR
- TheatricalU15 Aug 1984
GermanyDE
- Theatrical12YY/DD tbd1 Jan 1985
GreeceGR
- Theatrical136 Sept 1984
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG4 May 1984
ItalyIT
- Theatrical27 Apr 1985
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG1223 Mar 1985
NetherlandsNL
- TVALNet 515 Nov 2003
- PhysicalALDVD22 Sept 2005
- PhysicalALBlu ray14 Sept 2012
NorwayNO
- Theatrical124 May 1984
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Sixteen Candles was released on 4 May 1984.
Audience reviews
2- J7/10
John Chard
4/12/2015
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 i…
- J8/10
JPV852
6/29/2020
Really fun, and funny, romantic-comedy that is to me akin to Ferris Bueller's Day Off style of humor from John Hughes (vs. something like The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink with a more serious tone or themes). Anyway, this was my first time seeing this and while I still place TBC and FBDO over this, still another great film from Hughes to come out of the 80s and, like those, still works so well today. **4.0/5**
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