About this episode
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 . Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1984 installment featuring the year’s biggest flop, Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire .