I'm late on this, but John Hughes died.Director
Writer
Producer
The Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Weird Science
Some Kind of Wonderful (wrote)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Home Alone (scripted)
Uncle Buck
Beethoven (wrote)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Christmas Vacation (co-wrote)
Pretty in Pink (wrote)
She's Having a Baby
The Great Outdoors (wrote)
Curly Sue
Mr. Mom (wrote)
True difference-maker. Which American (and it goes further than America) in my generation wasn't affected by at least one of these movies?
Wow.
Ed. note: A tribute
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Believe it or not, I've only seen three of these movies. And I saw them as adults. Maybe that's why I didn't have a 'normal' teenage era. Hmmm.
WandaV
I added a tribute and may add more links at the bottom if there's any I find worth it.
The only ones I didn't see were Beethoven (any of the Beethoven movies) and Curly Sue, which was the last one he directed.
Not all of them were great, but The Breakfast Club and She's Having a Baby are two of my favorite movies of all time, and Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller, Sixteen Candles... those movies helped define the 80s generation.
Wanda, I think I need to let you borrow some movies.
Saw Ferris Bueler's Day Off, Mr. Mom, and the Home Alone movies. I liked the Home Alone stuff the best.
I always meant to watch the Breakfast Club, just never got around to it.
WandaV
Think I've seen almost every one of these movies. They just don't make them the same anymore.
Pam M.
The Breakfast Club is a must see.
Milly
Pam!!!
Great to hear your cyber-voice! It's almost like in person!
I think Say Anything, not a John Hughes flick but a Cameron Crowe movie, was the last to kind of equal what John Hughes did with his teen pictures - catching adolescents in their angst, feelings for the opposite sex, popular-cool-freak-geek-social status meanings, bonding and friendship, etc. His adult movies were good, too, but I think the teen ones were more trend-setting.
Milly,
I agree about The Breakfast Club, and I think of all his movies, that's the transcendent one. Personally, I have a whole lotta love for Some Kind of Wonderful (with Eric Stolz, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Leah Thompson) and, as I stated before, She's Having a Baby, which I've only watched about 25 times.
I'm thinking TBS or TNT or ABC Family might have a John Hughes marathon sooner or later. Of course, then you get the censored versions, which leave something to be desired. Nonetheless, they're still more than worth the watching.
I loved Breakfast Club but Sixteen Candles is one of my favorites. You gotta love it when the girl gets her Prince Charming :)
Pam M.
You gotta love it when the girl gets her Prince Charming :)
Well, from my point of view, Pammie, I like it when the toad gets to kiss the princess... but I don't think that was a John Hughes movie.
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