John Cusack's real-life sister, Joan Cusack, is wearing the neck brace on the bus in the beginning of the film.
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When the geek and the prom queen are driving along in the Rolls-Royce rebel yell scene, the close-up shot of them through the windshield shows a missing rear-view mirror. It was there when the geek pulled out of Jake's garage and it reappears later when the Rolls is parked in front of the house where John Cusack's character lives. This was probably a deliberate mistake by John Hughes so that he could get a better shot of the prom queen feeding birth control pills to Anthony Michael Hall. See more...
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Directed by John Hughes, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Molly Ringwald (add more)
John Cusack's real-life sister, Joan Cusack, is wearing the neck brace on the bus in the beginning of the film.
Molly Ringwald's real-life sister, Beth Ringwald, appears in the film as Patty Baker.
Director John Hughes, wrote this script in two days.
Jake's Licence plate reads "21850" (February 18, 1950), which is director John Hughes' birthday.
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