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John Hughes
John Wilden Hughes, Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He directed and scripted some of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s, including the comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles (1984), the teen sci-fi comedy Weird Science (1985), the coming-of-age comedy-drama The Breakfast Club (1985), the coming-of-age comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), the romantic comedy-drama Pretty in Pink (1986), the romance Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), the comedies Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and Uncle Buck (1989), the Christmas family comedy Home Alone (1990) and its sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
Hughes is known for his work on teen movies and for helping launch the careers of numerous actors, including Michael Keaton, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Bill Paxton, Matthew Broderick, Macaulay Culkin, and the Brat Pack group.
Movies directed by John Hughes:
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Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film starring Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall written and directed by John Hughes
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Weird Science
Two unpopular teenagers attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than they can handle.
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Planes Trains and Automobiles
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
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The Breakfast Club
Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention where they pour their hearts out to each other and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite of what the principal thinks of that.