screen writer director john hughes have aim his sight once again at the easily pleased young audience and and it be surely the only target he be likely to strike with this rather misfired teen comedy . molly ringwald and anthony michael hall and two hughes regular and star in this cinderella story about a sixteen year old birthday girl whose parent have forget her special day because of her old sister imminent wedding and and whose dream man doesn not even know she exist . and to make matter bad and poor little sam baker ( ringwald ) be be vigorously pursue by the king of the school geek ( hall ) . unlike the dramatically sound 1985 hit the breakfast club and both molly ringwald and anthony michael hall fail to entertain whilst hughes flat and predictable script struggle to make u laugh and a it mostly resort to tasteless or weak sex joke and cheap shot . the funny scene in fact would have to be at the church near the end of the film when sammy rather heavily sedate sister attempt to walk down the aisle with daddy . otherwise sixteen candle be a disappointment from john hughes and hardly a creditable teen flick . saturday and august 20 and 1994 t. v .