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Episode 16: Sixteen Candles (1984)

Author
Alan Noah
Published
Fri 21 Oct 2016
Episode Link
https://testoftimepod.com/index.php/2016/10/21/episode-16-sixteen-candles-1984/

No one made movies about teen angst like John Hughes. Sixteen Candles tells the story of Sam, a girl having the worst day of her life—on her sixteenth birthday—which her family forgot about.

This movie insulted geeks with Anthony Michael Hall, Asians with Long Duck Dong, and violated the cardinal rule of characters breaking the fourth wall. But is Sixteen Candles "so major" that it stands the Test of Time?

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