John Hughes

FULL NAME	John Wilden Hughes Jr.
BORN	18 February 1950, Lansing, Michigan, USA
ASSOCIATION	Director, screenwriter, producer
NATIONALITY	American
REVIEWED ENTRIES	12 (total) 6 (as director)
MAX. RATING	(total) (as director)
MIN. RATING	½ (total) ½ (as director)
AVERAGE RATING (DIRECTOR)	3.04 (total) 3.00 (as director)

FILMOGRAPHY (ONLY REVIEWED ENTRIES)

BIO

With his ability to depict teenage angst and social roles with sensitivity and authenticity, John Hughes became the voice of the Gen X from the United States to many parts of Europe during the 1980s. His series of high-school films between 1984's Sixteen Candles and 1987's Some Kind of Wonderful enthralled young movie audiences and divided critics, but decades later his magnum opus The Breakfast Club from 1985 stands as a beacon of late 20th century suburbian Americana. From the late 1980s, Hughes made a number of less remarkable comedies starring John Candy before stepping away from the director's chair and shifting to writing and producing children's comedies. Often exaggerated and borderline tasteless, these were nevertheless remarkably successful, such as the Home Alone series and the Beethoven series. Hughes died of a heart attack aged 59 in 2009.