This enjoyable and informative 38-minute documentary covers a lot of neat ground on John Hughes' debut feature "Sixteen Candles." Anthony Michael Hall notes that Hughes had a great ear for dialogue and encouraged him to ad-lib some lines. Haviland Morris reveals that she used a body double for the shower scene while Blanche Baker talks about refusing to do a scene in which her character loses her wedding ring. Paul Dooley remembers Hughes as a big kid, Justin Henry admits that he relished all the zingers he got to say in the film, and Gedde Watanabe likewise confesses that he loved playing Long Duk Dong because his character wasn't neurotic. Among the other things we learn are that Hughes had a really bad boy sense of humor, but the innocent tone stops said humor from being offensive, the Illinois locations gave the movie a certain authenticity, Molly Ringwald was full of angst and had a certain gravitas to her, and that the film was withstood the test of time because not only does the dialogue and characters seem real, but the picture tapped into something that still exists in some way even today in the culture. Worth a watch for fans of the film.
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