Superbad aside, there hasn't been a good movie set in high school for a very long time. Certainly none as good as this in depicting the awkwardness, the feeling-outcast-ness, all the insecurities and everything else - John Hughes got it all just about right.
This review of Sixteen Candles (1984) was written by Daniel W on 08 Aug 2009.
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