9 Ways Paper Towns Is Basically a Modern John Hughes Movie

Once the sensitive boy meets "perfect" girl, unrequited love is all but guaranteed. Q is head over heels for Margo, though she doesn't seem to share the same affection. Many of Hughes's characters have their own dramatic love lives; Sam (Molly Ringwald) has the ultimate crush on Jake in Sixteen Candles, while the Geek (Anthony Michael Hall, who doesn't have a real name in that movie) is obsessed with Sam. Being a teenager is hard.