Sixteen Candles Resources

Molly Ringwald's real-life sixteenth birthday wish must have been to be an actor, a singer, and an author, because all of those things have come true.

The Geek, Anthony Michael Hall, has a website, too. But only dorks still have links to their MySpace page.

With The Breakfast Club, Molly Ringwald would later become the de factor leader of the Brat Pack. You can read about how that impacted a generation of fellow brats in this book.

Is John Hughes a genius? Writer Kirk Honeycutt thinks so. And Judd Nelson gave him a blurb, so it must be true.

People who saw Sixteen Candles in theaters are now old enough to be writers writing about Sixteen Candles.

Film critic Eric Snider explores the timeless appeal of Sixteen Candles. It helps that all the 80's music is still popular.

Roger Ebert considered Long Duk Dong to be "high comedy." Two thumbs down, Roger.

In the Merv Griffin video below, Ringwald talks about attending summer camp, like a normal, after Sixteen Candles. But it's anything but normal, as we find out in this interview.

Merv Griffin didn't just create Wheel of Fortune, he also interviewed Molly Ringwald on his talk show.

Sixteen Candles might be timeless, but this trailer for it is so 80's.

NPR explores the stereotype of Long Duk Dong, calling him a "stain" on film history and "'Every Bad Stereotype,' rolled into one character." Tell us how you really feel, guys.

Molly Ringwald talks with the Moth Radio Hour about Sixteen Candles and going from telling other people's stories to telling her own.

That's how the trailer describes Sam's dilemma, pictured on the official movie poster. But which one is which?

We love this vintage-style poster, even if it does give away the ending of the movie. (Psst: it's a happy one.)