John Hughes, 1950-2009
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
John Hughes
John Hughes was not a director who earned critical praise or awards. He just made simple movies, many of them about teenage angst, that people enjoyed. His sudden death at age 59 was a shock and a shame.
His glory years were in the 1980s and ’90s when he first made his mark with such fan favorites as Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and his biggest smash hit, Home Alone, which he wrote and produced (it was directed by Chris Columbus). He directed his last movie, Curly Sue, in 1991. He went on to write and produce a few other movies, but his years as a superstar populist director were over. His movies are a legacy of good fun. Go here for the obit in the Hollywood Reporter.