Kind of like The Money Pit for John Hughes fans! If You Were Here is about a woman who buys Jake Ryan’s house from Sixteen Candles and fixes it up. Jen Lancaster wrote a fun novel about this house (affiliate link): Note: There are Amazon affiliate links below that may earn me commission. Movie Locations and More got a recent pic of the house. Remember Jake Ryan’s House in “Sixteen Candles”? I love how very ’80s it was with that wallpaper and the wood cabinets! The house has 6 bedrooms, 6 baths, and 3,250 square feet. Paul Dooley played Sam’s dad Jim Baker and Justin Henry was her foul-mouthed brother Mike. You will picture yourself sharing dinner parties in the amazing dining room and the elegant living room with a wood burning fireplace and gorgeous plastic cast molding. It was shot on location in this red-brick house in Evanston, Illinois, so let’s revisit it and the movie that was filmed here! She played an angst-filled teenager named Samantha Baker, whose family is so focused on her sister Ginny’s wedding that they “effing forgot” her 16th birthday. Remember Molly Ringwald’s house from the classic John Hughes movie Sixteen Candles?
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