Sixteen Candles

UPC: 025192114021

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Brief Nudity, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Youth Substance Use, Suitable for Teens]

Summary: On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Jake (Michael Schoeffling). Moving from Samantha's family home as it's invaded by outre relatives to a high-school dance where nothing seems to go her way, this bittersweet teen comedy traces the hopes and disappointments of not only Samantha, but also a host of incidental but memorable characters, from a hapless Japanese exchange student to a prom queen and a posse of barely pubescent nerds. A climactic party scene at which these various strata of young America overcome their rigid hierarchies sets the stage for resolutions both tender and torrid. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: ccRemastered with the original motion picture music (featuring David Bowie, BIlly Idol, Spandau Ballet, Prince, and more)

Sixteen Candles

Format: DVD

Release Date: 09/02/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Digital Theater Systems

Runtime: 93 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Region: USA & territories, Canada

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Everybody Up! [1:37]
2. Turning Sixteen [2:44]
3. Main Titles [2:55]
4. The Test [4:23]
5. The Bus [3:30]
6. A Full House [7:41]
7. Ballroom Blitz [8:39]
8. Car Talk [9:30]
9. On the Town [2:45]
10. Party Time! [9:52]
11. Heart to Heart [4:25]
12. The Buddy System [3:07]
13. Cruising [9:03]
14. The Morning After [5:20]
15. Going to the Chapel [2:33]
16. Here Comes the Bride [8:10]
17. A Dream Comes True [2:59]
18. End Titles [3:13]

Brian J. Dillard

In his directorial debut, successful comedy screenwriter John Hughes maps out the insecurities of middle-class adolescence with wit, empathy, and a large cast of enjoyably loopy teen characters. The film made pouty, chic Molly Ringwald a star, and more than 15 years later it isn't hard to see why. Sarcastic one minute, heart on her sleeve the next, she embodies the anxieties of bright but stifled youth the world over. Anthony Michael Hall, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, and host of lesser-known players make the most of their sometimes limited screen time with broad, dead-on comic personae. Heathers would scrawl ironic graffiti across this tender portrait of na?ve suburbia a mere five years later, but few films, if any, have since captured its good-hearted charm. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Steve Monarque  Actor 
Brian Doyle-Murray  Actor 
Joan Cusack  Actor 
Marge Kotlisky  Actor 
Frank Howard  Actor 
Cinnamon Idles  Actor 
Dennis Vero  Actor 
Carlin Glynn  Actor 
Rick LeFevour  Actor 
John Kapelos  Actor 
Max Showalter  Actor 
Beth Ringwald  Actor 
John Cusack  Actor 
Tony Longo  Actor 
Elaine Wilkes  Actor 
Jonathan Chapin  Actor 
Zelda Rubinstein  Actor 
Darren Harris  Actor 
Blanche Baker  Actor 
Jami Gertz  Actor 
Deborah Pollack  Actor 
Hilton A. Green  Producer 
John Hughes  Director 
John Hughes  Screenwriter 
Ira Newborn  Composer (Music Score) 
Ned Tanen  Executive Producer 
Molly Ringwald  Actor 
Anthony Michael Hall  Actor 
Michael Schoeffling  Actor 
Paul Dooley  Actor 
Liane Alexandra Curtis  Actor 
Justin Henry  Actor 
Haviland Morris  Actor 
Gedde Watanabe  Actor 
Billie Bird  Actor 
Edward Andrews  Actor 
Carole Cook  Actor 

Country: USA