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Sixteen Candles
1984
· Movie
· 93 min
C
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2896
- IMDb #2190
- Google retired #3222
- Rotten Tomatoes #1289
- Metacritic #2771
- Letterboxd #3859
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1987
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1080
- Metacritic Critics #2408
- Metacritic Audience #3398
- Criticker #1817
- AlloCiné #3486
Every rating
48–85
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 48, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 85.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A girl’s sixteenth birthday becomes the worst day of her life when her entire family forgets the occasion due to her older sister’s wedding chaos. To make matters worse, she endures embarrassment at school, an obsessed freshman, and the awkwardness of her grandparents. All the while, she hopelessly pines for the most popular senior boy, who seems completely unaware of her existence.
Details
- Director
- John Hughes
- Writer
- John Hughes
- Released
- 4 May 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $6.5M
- Box office
- $23.7M
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Awards
2 wins & 1 nomination total
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