The 1984 movie Sixteen Candles has been named one of the best romanticcomedies of all time. The John Hughes coming-of-age comedy ranked on Rotten Tomatoes' list of 200 memorable romance-themed films, where it was described as “significantly more mature than the teen raunch comedies that defined the era. “Sixteen Candles is shot with compassion and clear respect for its characters and their hang-ups,” the movie outlet noted.
Starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, and Anthony Michael Hall,Sixteen Candles told the story of Samantha Baker’s (Ringwald) crush on high school hunk Jake Ryan (Schoeffling) as her 16thbirthday was overshadowed by her sister’s wedding.
Sixteen Candles was a box office hit, earning over $23 million worldwide, per Box Office Mojo, and it made stars out of Ringwald, Hall, and more. It was also the directorial debut of Hughes, who would go on to write and produce the ‘80s hits The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Pretty in Pink, and more.
'Sixteen Candles' was written quickly—and with Ringwald in mind
Hughes wrote the first draft of Sixteen Candles quickly. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ringwald once said of the filmmaker, “He wrote Sixteen Candles in two days.”
She also shared that Hughes had her in mind for the lead role after seeing her headshot. During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Ringwald revealed that she never even had to audition for Hughes.
“I met him, originally, for Sixteen Candles, and as the story goes… he had gotten my picture from a stack of headshots from ICM, and he just had it up on his wall, and he wrote Sixteen Candles over a weekend looking at my picture,” she revealed. “So when it was time to cast it, he cast the girl in the picture. I'm a girl in the picture.”
Ringwald told CBS News that Hughes chose her headshot out of a “giant stack” he received because he liked her face. "And he put it up over his desk and wrote Sixteen Candles, basically over a weekend,” she said.
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Hughes, who died in 2009 at age 59, once reflected on his fast-paced screenwriting. In a rare video interview, he explained, “When I start to write a script, I try to get it done as quickly as I can to see if I like the idea, then I go through maybe 25, 30 rewrites, and that rewriting process doesn’t finish until I lock the film, which I do at the last minute.”
“How long it takes me to do a first draft… no I don’t sit there for 12 months because I can’t write dialogue like that,” he added. “I write dialogue as fast as I can say it. Fortunately, I’m a fairly good typist.”
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