Character mistake: In the scene where Sam is filling out the confidential questionnaire, the word "confidential" is spelled "confidentail".
Sixteen Candles (1984)
1 character mistake
Directed by: John Hughes
Starring: John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Anthony Michael Hall, Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling, Justin Henry, Haviland Morris
Continuity mistake: When the family is getting into the car to go to the wedding one grandmother says to the other "let me in". The grandmother gets out to let the other grandmother in but the first grandmother never gets back in the car, she just pretends to. You can see her hiding behind the cars as it backs down the drive. Both grandmothers are in the car when they see Long Duk Dong on the lawn.
Ginny: I really love Rudy. He is totally enamored of me. I mean, I've had men who've loved me before, but not for six months in a row.
Trivia: John Cusack's real-life sister, Joan Cusack, is wearing a neck brace on the bus at the beginning of the film.
Question: When Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall are sitting in the car at the dance, what is the humiliating secret that he tells her and she laughs at?
Answer: He hasn't "bagged a babe."
Answer: He tells her that he is a virgin. His friends think that he is a "stud" and has had sex when he hasn't.
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