John Hughes Dies at 59
John Hughes, the director and screenwriter who helped define a young generation with his ’80s films “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Pretty in Pink,” has died.
The cause was aheart attack, according to a statement from the publicists Paul Bloch and Michelle Bega.
John Hughes Dies at 59
Hughes did a few more teen movies, including “Weird Science” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” then scored with “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” in 1987 and even bigger with “Home Alone” in 1990.
After that, however, he headed for the exits. The last film he directed was “Curly Sue,” in 1991. In 1994, he retired from both the film business and the public eye – which he had never enjoyed.
His last public project was writing an independent film, “Reach the Rock,” in 1999.
Hughes is survived by his wife, Nancy, to whom he was married for 39 years, and two sons, James and John. John Hughes Dies at 59
Though Mr. Hughes graduated to more adult fare with films like “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and had his biggest hits with explicitly family-oriented material like “Home Alone,” he remains associated with creating an ideal of American youth that allowed for idiosyncrasy and growth.
Cliques could reliably be broken down, the girl could get the guy, and parents would always go out of town so you could have a killer house party.
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