The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1984 features our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, John Hughes’ Sixteen Candles. Written and directed by John Hughes and starring Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling, Gedde Watanabe, Haviland Morris and Paul Dooley, Sixteen Candles launched Hughes’ career as a director after his earlier success as a screenwriter.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sixteen-candles-1984), Gary Arnold in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/05/05/sixteen-candles-makes-a-lovely-sight/25a2d7f7-3a67-44a4-8848-cac001effbbd/), and Pauline Kael in TheNew Yorker.

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