15 Hollywood Classics That Reflect a Different Era, Ranked

Sixteen Candles (1984)

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Although John Hughes’s filmography is packed with ’80s classics, that doesn’t mean all of his films have aged particularly well. Unfortunately, Sixteen Candles is possibly the worst offender in this regard.

Not only is the racial humor underlying the character Long Duk Dong much more uncomfortable in retrospect but so are the issues of consent behind the first time Molly Ringwald’s Samantha and Antony Michaell Hall’s Ted get intimate.