John Hughes Jr: February 18, 1950- August 6, 2009

John Hughes, the director of some of the greatest movies ever, at least in my opinion died yesterday of a heart attack while walking in Manhattan.

If you’re an 80s kid like myself, you’d remember him as the brains(whether directing or writing) behind such classic cult movies as ‘The Breakfast Club’, ‘Sixteen Candles’, ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’, ‘Uncle Buck’, ‘Weird Science’, ‘National Lampoon’s Vacation’, ‘Pretty in Pink’, ‘Home Alone and Home Alone 2’, plus many more greats.

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These were great movies and they gave kids and teenagers something to relate during our formidable years. He helped us understand that we all go through similar problems and issues whether pretty, ugly, popular, nerdy, an outcast, or whatever social class you might have felt you were in during the many trials we all face in high school. He gave a couple of geeks a chance at creating their dream girl, gave a misunderstood kid a learning lesson when he wakes up with his family gone and is left alone to fend for himself but learning the value of family in the end, gave five social misfits from different worlds a chance to get to know each other and actually become friends…these are feel good comedies/romantic comedies that we all grew to love.

Even though it’s been years since he’s retired from the film industry, he will be sorely missed and his work lives on forever.

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