The directorial debut of comedy writer John Hughes, a movie for and about teenagers, and with their same impatience and exaggeration: I'll simply die if I don't get a laugh in the next five seconds. And the next and the next and the next. Anthony Michael Hall, as a socially maladroit freshman, is given every opportunity to steal the movie, more opportunity even than Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Christopher Penn in Footloose. He steals a few scenes at the least. But the movie belongs, as is only right, to Molly Ringwald, playing straightwoman to all the cards and cut-ups, in a pouty but dignified performance as a just-sixteen-year-old whose birthday is overlooked in all the hubbub over her big sister's wedding (Blanche Baker, the big sister, steals only the wedding scene, as is also right). With Paul Dooley and Justin Henry. (1984) — Duncan Shepherd
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