Not really much to say about John Hughes that the world doesn't already know: he grew up in Northbrook, Illinois (for his films, he created a fictionalized version of Northbrook called Shermer, Illinois and Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, and National Lampoon's Vacation are all set there).
He dropped out of ArizonaStateUniversity to be a fulltime comedy writer after selling jokes to Joan Rivers and Rodney Dangerfield. His article for National Lampoon Magazine was then turned into Nation Lampoon's Vacation and the Kevin Bacon/Elizabeth McGovern film, She's Having a Baby is very close to his real life with his wife, Nancy. Before hitting it real big with teen-oriented films, Hughes wrote Mr. Mom (a big hit), Nation Lampoon's Vacation (a bigger hit), and the pirate move, Nates and Hayes (a huge flop). And then came Molly Ringwald…and the rest was History 101, I mean, just history. When I say “Eighties teen movies,” people usually say “John Hughes!”
·Sixteen Candles (1984) (he also directed)
·The Breakfast Club (1985) (he also directed)
·Weird Science (1985) (he also directed)
·Pretty in Pink (1986)
·Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) (he also directed)
·Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)
After great success in the 80’s, Hughes wrote Home Alone in 1990, and struck gold again. He later wrote films (Beethoven, Maid in Manhattan, and Drillbit Taylor) under the pseudonym Edmund Dantes, the name of the hero of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
Anyway, Happy Birthday, Mr. Hughes! Thank you for all the memories, and R.I.P.!
No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us. - 1 John 4:12
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