Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Wantanabe, Anthony Micheal Hall
Colour me silly. I thought the whole time that Michael Schoeffling was Matt Dillon. Boy to they look the same!
Anyway, I can't seem to stop renting hokey movies with happy love story endings. Personally, I think i should be shot to save all humanity. I'm obviously encouraging the creation of more of these genre movies and I don't think that's fair to the rest of you people out there who would rather see Action flicks.
Sixteen Candles is (sigh) a chick flick. Also, it's a member of the Brat Pack family of films which I seem to also have a curious addiction to. But besides all this. Sixteen Candles is one of those...feel-good movies. You know, the kind that makes you feel good, and then you realize how much your own life sucks so then you feel really ungood. It's a vicious circle, and good quality films like this one prove that that circle does exist.
So in this film, Samantha (Ringwald)'s vapid sister is getting married to Rudy (John Kapelos of Forever Knight infamy). So the whole family forgets Samantha's 16th birthday. Boohoo. So far her life sucks too. But then, after filling out a completely harmless (read: yeah right) sex survey from one of her friends, her love interest, Jake Ryan (Dillon look-alike) gets a hold of it and tries to find out all about her. Meanwhile Sam is being pestered by THE GEEK (Hall), and various interesting things happen for about 93 minutes until, finally, in a fuzzy 70's picture scene, Sam and Jake get together (a spoiler, but you knew it had to happen).
This is a cute movie that's well acted and directed and cute to watch if you're having a vapid all around night. Or, if you can think up a fun 'Gee how my life sucks' drinking game, where you down a shot every time Molly Ringwald's perfect little life makes you feel like shit.
My Advice: Doesn't really matter if you rent this, there are thousands of feel-crappy movies out there that will make you feel just as worthless as this nice movie made me feel.
P.S: Don't email me about my self-image problems, I already know about them. Thank you.