the Vacation movies, and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Sixteen Candles was set in the fictional Illinois town of Shermer, ...
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However, Schoeffling was actually a few years older than his Sixteen Candles character Jake Ryan, who was around 17 or 18 in the movie. This means that Jake would likely be turning 58 this year.