Reflections on John Hughes
This is an amazing tribute to John Hughes. To me he was the quintessential 80's. Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Ferris Bueler's Day Off...I've watched these movies hundreds of times each I'm sure. I had no idea he wrote so many movies. He totally got the outsider character as a real person and not just what made them not the jock, prom queen, etc., and if Molly Ringwald could end up with Andrew McCarthy, there was hope for us all. There hasn't been another writer/director/producer like John Hughes who defined an era and spoke to a generation, and I don't know that there ever will be. How sad for his family and for all of us that he died so young. He's the same age as my mother, and I think that shocked me the most. RIP John Hughes. You will be missed.