![]() To further impress the geeks, Ted stops at Bryce and Wease's house to get Wease to take a picture of him with Caroline in the expensive car, but the finished picture only reveals the top of Ted's head. He takes Sam's underwear from Ted and, in exchange, lets Ted take a drunken Caroline home in his father's Rolls-Royce. Ted tells him Sam is interested in him and Jake confesses that he has lost interest in Caroline. He finds Ted trapped under a glass coffee table after having knocked over the beer can pyramid the night before. After the party, Jake is furious at the damage left behind. Jake, angry with Caroline, retreats to his bedroom and tries calling Sam, but instead is yelled at by her grandparents for waking them up, and tell him that Sam isn't interested. Jake and Caroline leave the dance, leaving Sam thinking Jake does not like her, and vice-versa.Īt Jake's house, Caroline and her friends have started a wild party. Meanwhile, Sam tries to approach Jake, but loses her nerve and runs off. Before she leaves, he gets her underwear to win his bet and he, Bryce, and Wease charge the other freshmen boys a dollar to see it. Despite his genuine interest in Sam, Ted encourages her to talk to Jake, and she agrees. Ted tells her that Jake asked about her and Sam is shocked and asks what Ted thinks she should do. Ted apologizes to Sam, who opens up about her family forgetting her birthday and her crush on Jake. Jake asks Ted about Sam, having seen them dancing. ![]() As proof, Bryce and Wease demand Sam's underwear. In an effort to salvage his reputation with all the geeks, Ted bets Bryce and Wease a dozen floppy disks that he will get physical with Sam before the dance ends. ![]() Ted, in an effort to impress his friends Bryce and Wease, dances with Sam, who runs off in tears. She is further upset when her grandparents also do not remember her birthday and have Dong go with her to a dance at school that night.Īt the dance, Sam pines for Jake while Dong has attracted the powerful and strong jock, Marlene. On the bus ride home, Sam fends off repeated flirtations from geeky freshman Ted.Īt home, Sam's day gets worse when she discovers she must sleep on the sofa because her grandparents and a foreign exchange student named Long Duk Dong are all staying at the house for the wedding. Rock dismisses her as immature, but Jake says he is frustrated by his girlfriend Caroline's partying ways. Meanwhile, Jake, having noticed Sam's looks at him, asks his friend Rock about her. In suburban Chicago, high school sophomore Samantha "Sam" Baker is hopeful her 16th birthday is the beginning of a great new year, but is shocked when her family forgets the occasion because her older, beautiful, self-absorbed sister Ginny is getting married the next day.Īt school, Sam fills out a friend's sex quiz where she reveals her crush on senior Jake Ryan. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, earning $23.6 million against a $6.5 million budget, and launched Ringwald to fame. Written and directed by John Hughes in his directorial debut, it was the first in a string of films Hughes would direct centering on teenage life. And then comes my killer argument, the clincher: look to the kiss I say, look to that long, drippy kiss.Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall. Isn't it just a load of schmaltz, only fit for Christmas? To which I reference the early feminist radicalism of the book on which it is based, point to the calibre of the cast, rant about the edginess of the scripting, make mention of its lack of sentimentality. ![]() Forget Vertigo, Sight & Sound magazine! By sheer force of humanity, Little Women outdoes Hitch in a stroke.Įven so, whenever I profess my love for Little Women I feel like I'm making a confession. Little Women – which I maintain is one of the best films of all time – has been victim to this. The second reason is this: there's a tendency to dismiss classic Victorian children's novels as trite and moralistic, and that tendency is increased threefold when they're adapted for film. Reading on mobile? Click here to view the snog ![]()
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