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Sixteen Candles
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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that, instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, you use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

One shot of a female showering nude; there is a full on closeup on her breasts and a sideshot of her naked body including her rear. This is in the first 1/4 of the movie and is the only actual nudity.

There are some crude terms for breasts (tits, hooters, golden bozos, boobies) and conversations involving sex and virginity (A boy says he's never "bagged a girl.")

A boy bets he can have sex with a girl; this girl gives him her panties which he shows to his friends.

There are a couple shots of girl's underwear. One of them while still on the girl.

Two teens have sex (offscreen) and wonder what happened afterwards, since they were drunk.

Plenty of other references. (Some quite strong)

16-yr old girl sees her grandparents in their underwear.

Off-screen a girl is touched by her grandmother, immediately afterwards she tells her friend about it.

A teen boy slow dances with a much taller buxom girl.

Two teens ride an exercise bicycle fully-clothed but straddling each other.

A note is being passed in class asking sex questions such as "Have you ever touched IT?" and "Have you gone all the way?"

Violence & Gore

Just a guy with a black eye. A drunk party goer drops a large barbell through the floor of a house into the basement.

Profanity

2 F-words, milder swearing.

There is lots of alcohol consumption by teens at a party and resulting drunkeness, some characters stay drunk for nearly half the movie.

A woman about to get married takes 4 pain killers and proceeds to act in a very-drugged manner for the entire wedding.

A pyramid of beer cans is made by 3 large football-player types, implying that they drank all of it themselves.

The film was originally rated R, but truth be told if it had been released in 2012 or 2013 it'd be PG-13.

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Certification:
Finland:K-12 / Norway:11 / Norway:12 (original rating) / Spain:13 / Sweden:Btl / USA:PG (re-rating on appeal) (#27313) / USA:R (original rating) / Canada:13+ (Quebec) (original rating) / Canada:AA (Ontario) / Canada:G (Quebec) (re-rating) (2003) / Canada:PA (Manitoba) / UK:12 (re-rating) (2005) / UK:15 (original rating) (1984-2005) / Singapore:NC-16 / Iceland:L / Australia:PG / Argentina:Atp / Peru:PT / Portugal:M/12 / South Korea:15

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