The story of a lovelorn teenage girl (Molly Ringwald) whose own family forgets her birthday, the film has continued to strike a chord with audiences to this day, even as they reconsider some of its ...

Forty years after its release, Sixteen Candles has an undeniable place in the pantheon of American comedies. The box-office smash has remained a staple in the coming-of-age genre, even if its legacy ...

Michael Schoeffling, the actor who played Jake Ryan in the 1984 teen comedy, may have left Hollywood for a life out of the spotlight, but his daughter Scarlett is now a successful model PictureLux/The ...

Molly Ringwald is looking at the movies that made her famous a bit more critically now. In a recent interview with NPR, the actress discussed "Sixteen Candles," the 1984 film directed by the late John ...

Count Gwyneth Paltrow among the legions of Sixteen Candles fans to be shocked by the age of former actor Michael Schoeffling, who played high school heartthrob Jake Ryan in the 1984 film. On Thursday, ...