Hall starred in 'National Lampoon's Vacation' at age 15 and 'Sixteen Candles at 16 Brendan Le is an Editorial Assistant at PEOPLE with three years of experience working as an editor and writer.

To Anthony Michael Hall — who played "the Geek" in Sixteen Candles — costar Michael Schoeffling was "like a big brother." "Hollywood is like campus," noted the actor. "You kind of run into ...

Take a minute to process that if you need to. Hall was one of that decade's biggest teen stars, with appearances in Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Weird Science. He was a frequent ...

Handy also notes how many teen films now seem dated. “Sixteen Candles in particular hasn’t aged well,” he writes, “burdened by its appalling caricature of a horny Chinese exchange student ...

With the occasion all but overshadowed by her sister's upcoming wedding, angst-ridden Samantha faces her 16th birthday with typical adolescent dread. Samantha pines for studly older boy Jake, but ...