With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sisters upcoming wedding, angstridden samantha molly ringwald faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. First, sam calls ted a gay slur while theyre on the bus. His breakout role was in sixteen candles the buttcutt mustve surely helped, which led him to starring in gung ho in 1986, opposite michael keaton, and uhf in 1989, costarring weird. Sixteen candles is a more ordinary comedy about teenagers. Jen lancaster wrote a fun novel about this house affiliate link. Sixteen candles 1984 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Sixteen candles wasnt the first film that 21yearold joan cusack appeared in alongside her brother john that would be 1983s class, and it was far from the last. May 04, 2019 theres no way sixteen candles premiered nearly 35 years ago already. Sixteen candles is een film uit 1984 onder regie van john hughes. Sixteen candles 1984, ringwalds first movie with director john hughes, was one of my favorites. Molly ringwalds house from sixteen candles for sale. Search, discover and share your favorite sixteen candles gifs. While the film is beloved by many, ringwald penned an essay for the.
Sixteen candles the movie is a day in the life of samantha, whose 16th birthday is turning out to be anything but sweet. I found that story particularly interesting, because i consider schoeffling to have been a movie star in his time. Even worse, some total dork anthony michael hall keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from highschool hunk jake michael schoeffling. The day goes downhill from there, because of 3 her sisters wedding to a stupid lunkhead, 4 her crush on. Fortunately for sam, jake is tiring of his promqueen girlfriend. Sixteen candles 1984 michael schoeffling as jake imdb. Sixteen candles is a 1984 american comingofage comedy film starring molly ringwald, michael schoeffling, and anthony michael hall. Jack ryan is a character from another series by tom clancys. Michael earl schoeffling born december 10, 1960 is an american former actor and male model, known for playing jake ryan in sixteen candles, kuch in vision quest, and joe in mermaids.
Jake leaves the dance with caroline, whos throwing a party at jake s house while his parents are out of town. The rape culture of the 1980s, explained by sixteen candles. Aug 11, 2009 the sixteen candles scene echoes an even weirder scene in revenge of the nerds, when the head cheerleader goes into an amusement park fun house with the head nerd, who is wearing a mask. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.
The sixteen candles scene echoes an even weirder scene in revenge of the nerds, when the head cheerleader goes into an amusement park fun house with the head nerd, who is wearing a mask. But in the years following the films release, the actor who played him all but vanished. Shes your average teen, enduring creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the big blonde on campus. Watch sixteen candles online stream full movie directv. See what the sixteen candles cast, including molly ringwald and anthony. Sixteen candles is a 1984 film written and directed by john hughes, the first of his teen comedies. This was the house used in the john hughes 1984 teen classic, sixteen candles. Tribute music video to character jake ryan played by michael schoeffling from teen movie sixteen candles. Well, uh, lets see, he was wearing a red argyle sweater, and tan trousers, and red shoes.
Nov 24, 2015 sixteen candles 1984, ringwalds first movie with director john hughes, was one of my favorites. Theres no way sixteen candles premiered nearly 35 years ago already. Its samantha bakers sweet sixteen and no one in her family remembers the important occasion. He graduated from cherokee high school in new jersey, and majored in liberal arts.
Jake michael schoeffling the supposed perfect guy has a promqueen. Sixteen candles, unfortunately, falls into this same trap. High school sophomore samantha sam baker is hopeful her 16th birthday is the. What kind of car did jack ryan drive in sixteen candles. Meanwhile, samantha must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy ted anthony michael hall.
Sixteen candles is a 1984 american comingofage comedy film starring molly ringwald. If you were here is about a woman who buys jake ryan. In sixteen candles, sam molly ringwald is turning 16, but her family has forgotten her birthday because of her sisters impending wedding. Then came the 80s teen years of film domination, thanks to director john. Ladies everywhere have drooled over michael schoeffling. Sixteen candles is racist and sexist and needs to be. Schoeffling was born in wilkesbarre, pennsylvania, and raised in south jersey. Jake ryan from the 1984 coming of age movie, sixteen candles, is still one of the most beloved teen heartthrobs of nostalgic women today. It was used as jake s house where the massive party took place. It is about one day actually her 16th birthday in the life of samantha, an american schoolgirl, who never does get a cake with 16 candles as her family are so distracted by her older sisters wedding that they completely forget samanthas birthday. When the auditions came down to the last two actors vying for the role of jake ryan, a young read the part with both guys.
The donger and the geek attend the drunken bash at jake s house, while sam goes home. Sixteen candles doesnt stop at misogyny and racism. Meanwhile, samantha must constantly rebuff the affections of nerdy. At school, sam has a crush on a senior, jake, who might not know shes alive. Sixteen candles 1010 movie clip here comes the tipsy bride 1984 hd duration. Samantha pines for studly older boy jake michael schoeffling, but worries that her chastity will be a turnoff for the popular senior. It was michael shoeffling, who ended up being cast, and viggo mortensen, who had just moved from denmark, she recalled. Jake s furious that caroline invited over all these people to trash his house, so he tries to call sam. At the dance, sam pines after jake as he slow dances with caroline while it doesnt take long for dong to attract the largebreasted jock, marlene. All the traumas of teendom come down on one long day, which sees samantha surrounded by dithery relatives, mooning over a high school hunk, and pursued by a sawedoff lothario. Sixteen candles movie filming locations the 80s movies. Sixteen candles is racist and sexist and needs to be retired. John hughes, the writer of national lampoons vacation, shows how comingofage can be full of surprises in this warmhearted teenage comedy starring molly ringwald.
Jake leaves the dance with caroline, whos throwing a party at jakes house while his parents are out of town. Sixteen candles full movie 1984 hdjade astier sixteen candles original trailer john hughes, 1984 duration. Sixteen candles the 1984 teen drama movie featuring molly ringwald and michael schoeffling at the award winning 80s movies rewind. It also includes a dose of homophobia in the form of slurs. Jakes furious that caroline invited over all these. Jake ryans house sixteen candles, highland park roadtrippers.
Sixteen candles is a sweet and funny movie about two of the worst things that can happen to a girl on her sixteenth birthday. Sixteen candles shirts 10 products everyone knows jake ryan michael schoeffling, but what about sweet sixteen samantha baker molly ringwald, long duk dong gedde watanabe, and the geek anthony michael hall in the 1984 romancecomedy, sixteen candles. Sixteen candles is a 1984 film written and directed by john hughes, the first of his teen comedies molly ringwald stars as samantha sam baker, a girl facing numerous emotional challenges on her sixteenth birthday. Sixteen candles 1984 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Movie locations and more got a recent pic of the house.
Schoeffling retired from acting in 1991, and moved back to his hometown of wilkesbarre, pennsylvania to start his own furniture company. Sep 27, 2018 the fact that jake casually despises his longtime girlfriend doesnt reflect poorly on him because it doesnt affect the fantasy at the heart of sixteen candles. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Molly ringwald stars as samantha sam baker, a girl facing numerous emotional challenges on her sixteenth birthday. Molly ringwald admits she was bothered by sixteen candles. However, the character in john hughes sixteen candles name was jake ryan and he is seen drivin. Imdb, the worlds most popular and authoritative source for movie, tv and celebrity content. He was simply known as the geek in sixteen candles with his fullon. Significantly more mature than the teen raunch comedies that defined the era, sixteen candles is shot with compassion and clear respect for its characters and. Later, at the party at jakes house, ted hurls another gay slur at his friends. With tenor, maker of gif keyboard, add popular sixteen candles animated gifs to your conversations. Part of 8 pages of info for the 1984 movie from the award winning 80s movies rewind. We may think of hughes as this wonderful laureate of ya stories and teen cinema, but even his directorial debut, and followup weird science, resort to the types of cliches and problematic depictions of sex that befell the likes of porkys and revenge of the nerds.
On the eve of her sisters wedding, suburban teenager samantha molly ringwald suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Jake ryans house is to be found at 1407 waverly, highland park thanks to alschra. Sixteen candles soundtrack music complete song list tunefind. I was 15 years old, and i flew to new york to read with everyone. Sixteen candles is a 1984 american coming of age comedy film starring molly ringwald, michael schoeffling, and anthony michael hall. You would think hed give it more of a chance before giving up on his acting.
A girls sweet sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special, as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. Sixteen candles is timeless, and every time i watch it i wonder why ive never seen the very yummy jake ryan again. He is an actor, known for sixteen candles 1984, mermaids 1990 and wild hearts cant be broken 1991. Apr 17, 2017 jake ryan from the 1984 coming of age movie, sixteen candles, is still one of the most beloved teen heartthrobs of nostalgic women today. The iconic 1984 film starred actors including molly ringwald, michael schoeffling, anthony michael hall and more.
Sixteen candles turns 30 whatever happened to jake ryan. Jake michael schoeffling the supposed perfect guy has a. It was used as jakes house where the massive party took place. Later, at the party at jake s house, ted hurls another gay slur at his friends. While molly ringwald, anthony michael hall, john cusack. Her family, focused on the wedding of her older sister, ginny, forgets her birthday. With molly ringwald, anthony michael hall, justin henry, michael schoeffling. The fact that jake casually despises his longtime girlfriend doesnt reflect poorly on him because it doesnt affect the fantasy at the heart of. Jan 05, 2018 sixteen candles doesnt stop at misogyny and racism.
It was the handsome michael schoeffling who played the sensitive jock in the classic flick, which is more than three decades old and still a movie favorite among many today. The rape culture of the 1980s, explained by sixteen candles vox. In both cases, the language is used to intentionally feminize people as an insult. Molly ringwald really wanted viggo mortensen to play jake ryan. The donger and the geek attend the drunken bash at jakes house, while sam goes home. There are amazon affiliate links below that may earn me commission. The best movie quotes, movie lines and film phrases by movie quotes. So technically the answer is nothing considering he is not character in the movie. This is a private residence, so please admire from a distance.