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Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age teen comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. Written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut, it was the first in a string of films Hughes would direct, centering on teenage life. The film follows newly 16-year-old Samantha Baker (Ringwald ...
Long Duk Dong is a fictional character who appears in Sixteen Candles, a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes.Played by Japanese American actor Gedde Watanabe, the character is a Chinese foreign exchange student and a supporting character in the film set at a US suburban high school.
Sixteen Candles Michael Earl Schoeffling (born December 10, 1960) is an American former actor and model . He is known for playing the role of Jake Ryan in Sixteen Candles , Al Carver in Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken , Kuch in Vision Quest , and Joe in Mermaids .
Molly Ringwald. Jade Tillman Belmes/Getty Images for Creative Coalition Forty years after its release, Sixteen Candles has an undeniable place in the pantheon of American comedies. The box-office ...
Hughes's directorial debut, Sixteen Candles (1984), won almost unanimous praise when it was released in 1984, due in no small part to its more honest depiction of navigating adolescence and the social dynamics of high school life in stark contrast to the Porky's-inspired comedies made at the time.
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Blanche Baker (born December 20, 1956 [1]) is an American actress.She won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress for her work in the television miniseries Holocaust.
Footloose highlights a 1984 conservative town that outlaws music, dancing and "sinful" books. The parallels are strikingly similar to today's surge of book bans across schools and libraries, says ...