Hi everyone, long time first time!
Is it just me, or is this a homage/ripoff of Sixteen Candles? I had to look up which movie was made first (Sixteen Candles) because the plot, aside from the witch stuff, is exactly the same. Red haired unpopular girl with weird clothes and an irritating younger brother is coming up on her sixteenth birthday and pines for a boy who has a hot cheerleader girlfriend. He finds out her feelings for him through a personal note he was never meant to see. She is forced to go to the big dance with an embarrassing date (which is worse, painful Asian racist stereotype or date-rapey hipster nerd?) who ends up driving someone else's car and crashing it. Substitute some witch stuff and a rape house for a party and a wedding, and it's basically the same story. I even thought that Louise's mom was the same actress as the cheerleader girlfriend from Sixteen Candles as they look so much alike; she's not, but that would have been something.