John Hughes, the director of The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, has died. He was 59 years old. Read the full post.
Aug 6
2009
05:04 PM ET
John Hughes dies of heart attack
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Another great loss to my generation. I grew up in the 80′s and his movies are on my list of Top 10 movies. All of them. What a loss to the movie industry. There will never be another like him. The closest so far I would say are Kevin Williamson and Joss Whedon… but still no “John Hughes”. RIP U will be sorely missed.
This is soooo sad! He did some of my favorite all time movies, his movies defined my high school years. They are the movies all my friends got together to watch, he will be dearly missed!
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is my favorite comedy of all time. Unfortunately, John Hughes became as eccentric and as reclusive as Howard Hughes, suggesting a personality disorder.
It feels weird but his death affects me more then Michael Jackson’s. It’s weird because I usually don’t feel much when a celebrity passes away. I mean I feel sorrow for their family and friends but not on a personal level. But this time it affects me. Maybe it is because I am so attached to his movies. They take up most of my favorite movies and I can quote the films endlessly.
He was a great writer and I’ll remember him through his films fondly.
Ive grown up with the John Hughes movies–they were our favorite movies in the 80s and we still love all of them today. Of course Ferris and the Breakfast Club–but we 80s kids also loved Career Opportunities and Some Kind of Wonderful as well. John you will be missed.
This news saddens me to no end. I don’t think my family would have been the same without any of the Vacation movies and I know my childhood wouldn’t have been the same without the Breakfast Club.
RIP Hughes; I loved his films. However I always had a problem with Hughes setting his movies in Chicago and having no Black characters. Unless you count the pimps/strip club scene in “Weird Science” or the dancing Blacks in parade of “Ferris”. No Black people in Chicago! Have you ever been to Chicago?! I always wished Spike Lee would create a film in Portland with no White folks! People would go ape****!
Even though I was a teenager in the late ’60′s, JOHN HUGHES’ teen films struck a cord in the heart of anyone who was a teen or would soon be a teen. My favorite film of HUGHES’ is THE BREAKFAST CLUB. I saw it when it came out in 1985 right before I was moving to Florida “to find myself” at the age of 34 yrs. I only lasted in Florida less than 2 mos., but THE BREAKFAST CLUB lasted in my heart longer. In fact, I saw it again when I journeyed home from my Florida experience. Everyone who ever remembers their days in high school w/the jocks, snobby girls, the rebels, the nerds & the just plain old screwed up and sitting in detention can relate to HUGHES’ THE BREAKFAST CLUB. Teens still today are going thru all that same angst that kids in the ’80′s,’70′s,’60′s,’50′s, heck even the ’40′s went thru. Thank you, JOHN HUGHES for your talented insight into teendom & RIP. You will be missed, but your legacy will live on
forever!!! Just remember teens: TEENS RULE!!!
I recall watching PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES in the theater with my sisters & my father, who laughed so hard we had to move a few seats away to give him room for his plethora of uncontrolled spasms of snot-spouting guffaws. My dad is one who rarely emotes, but when he does…look out. Thanks to Mr. Hughes for allowing my father to laugh in public. I will treasure that memory forever.
Thats sad.writer/Director John Hughes died from a Heart Attack.He was 59.John Hughes is going to be missed.Favorite movie is Home alone back in 1990
Just a sad, sad day.
Had the great fortune of working on Weird Science, when John was just coming into the really weird world of Hollywood. He was such a lovely man and he created some seriously memorable cinematic moments…”Give me the keys, I’ll drive…”