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John Hughes
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Born:
February 18, 1950 in Lansing, MI
Death:
August 6, 2009
Biography:Once dubbed the "philosopher of adolescence" by film critic and fellow Chicagoan "Roger Ebert", "John Hughes" made his mark as the man most frequently associated with the 1980s teen angst genre. With his name attached in some form to such genre classics as "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "Pretty in Pink", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", and "Some Kind of Wonderful", Hughes was in large part responsible for defining the cinematic mood of a certain era. From "Molly Ringwald"'s red hair to "Ben Stein"'s monotonous "Bueller....Bueller," the characters and images in his films are still able to evoke a certain nostalgia in people who suffered through adolescence during the 1980s and remain as much of an embodiment of the decade's culture as shoulder pads and junk bonds.

Originally hailing from Lansing, MI, where he was born February 18, 1950, Hughes was 13 when he moved with his family to the... Full Biography

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