Review of Sixteen Candles (1984) by Nick R — 26 Dec 2018

Many of the films we associate with Hughes are productions in which he was only a collaborator, not the sole author (Pretty in Pink comes to mind - he wrote but did not direct it). Sixteen Candles represents the director distilled to his purest essence: the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Flawed though it may be, Sixteen Candles offers one of the best and most honest representations of '80s high school to be found in any contemporary feature.(One of the best remembered of Hughes films).