But, these days, Sixteen Candles is also not-so-fondly remembered for its most notorious supporting role: foreign exchange ...

Add to all this two sets of horrendously embarrassing grandparents, a foreign-exchange student named Long Duk Dong, and behold the makings of a hilarious journey into young-womanhood.

Molly finds some elements of Sixteen Candles 'troubling' in a modern lens - most obviously with the racist portrayal of the foreign exchange student Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe). Hughes depicts ...

On Tuesday's episode of Monica Lewinsky's "Reclaiming" podcast, the actress said she now finds it "a little peculiar" that her headshot was the inspiration behind Hughes writing the 1984 coming-of-age ...