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{{quote|It is thanks to him that not a day goes by when someone, somewhere does not come up to me, taps me on the shoulder and says, "[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Hey Ferris]], [[Never Heard That One Before|is this your day off?]]"|'''Matthew Broderick''', ''Memorial Speech for Hughes at the 82nd [[Academy Award|Academy Awards]]''}}
John Hughes (1950-2009) was an American filmmaker best known for the teen comedies he wrote and directed in the mid 1980s: ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'', ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'' and ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off|Ferris
He started as a writer for National Lampoon Magazine, and was one of the key developers of ''Delta House'', the TV spinoff of ''[[Animal House]]''. His first big successes as a screenwriter (the year before ''Sixteen Candles'') were ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]'' and ''Mr. Mom''. After ''Ferris Bueller'', he directed ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]'', ''She's Having a Baby'', ''[[Uncle Buck]]'', and ''[[Curly Sue]]'', and wrote and produced ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'', ''[[Some Kind of Wonderful]]'', the ''Lampoon's Vacation'' sequel entitled ''Christmas Vacation'', and the first three ''[[Home Alone]]'' movies. (He also produced ''Only The Lonely'' for writer-director (and ''[[Home Alone]]'' (and its sequel) director) [[Chris Columbus]], one of only two films he produced that he didn't write - the other was ''New Port South'', written and directed by his son James.)
During the 1990s, he somehow ended up writing and producing a string of more family-oriented comedies, including the live-action versions of ''[[101
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* ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'' (1984)
* ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'' (1985)
* ''[[Ferris Bueller's
* ''[[Planes, Trains and Automobiles]]'' (1987)
* ''She's Having A Baby'' (1988)
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* ''[[Curly Sue]]'' (1991) - this was his final film as a director.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]
** In a couple of his movies, the bad guys are people who take "just doing their job" too far.
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* [[Monochrome Casting]]: Virtually none of his movies had a non-white lead.
* [[The Stinger]]
* [[The Verse]]: In a 1999 ''Premiere'' [http://home.comcast.net/~aimsters4/bclub.html article], Hughes himself declared that ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'', ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'', ''[[Ferris Bueller's
{{quote| '''[[Word of God|John Hughes]]:''' When I started making movies, I thought I would just invent a town where everything happened. Everybody, in all of my movies, is from Shermer, Illinois. Del Griffith from ''Planes, Trains & Automobiles'' lives two doors down from John Bender. Ferris Bueller knew Samantha Baker from ''Sixteen Candles''. For 15 years I've written my Shermer stories in prose, [[All There in the Manual|collecting its history]].}}
** It's long been speculated that ''[[Pretty in Pink]]'', ''[[Some Kind of Wonderful]]'', and ''[[Home Alone]]'' also take place in the Shermerverse, since those movies were written (but not directed) by Hughes and feature similar themes.
** ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'' explicitly takes place in Shermer (Lisa is seen teaching the Shermer High gym class at the end), though it has its own [[Speculative Fiction]] internal logic that is inconsistent with the other canon Shermerverse movies.
** ''She's Having A Baby'' does
* [[The Windy City]]: The suburbs of Chicago, actually.
* [[Artist Disillusionment]]: Hughes left the Hollywood scene out of fear that it would have a negative impact on his kids. Plus, he felt that the film industry overworked his friend John Candy to the point that it killed the actor.
* [[Reclusive Artist]]
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