Claudia Forestieri (who just signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Television!) and Brigitte Munoz-Liebowitz of the HBO Max series Gordita Chronicles which is cut from the same cloth as this week’s film: Sixteen Candles! Well, it’s similar because it’s a coming-of-age comedy but it definitely isn’t problematic. As much as the world celebrates John Hughes’s directorial debut, it has a lot of problems… A LOT. From the Long Duk Dong of it all to the very problematic rapey banter from Farmer Ted and Jake Ryan, we talk about all of it!

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