Word just surfaced that, at the age of 59, director John Hughes has passed away.
Hughes experienced a heart attack while walking around NYC on a family vacation. Hughes is considered somewhat legendary for his work with the Brat Pack during the 80s on films such as “Sixteen Candles”, “The Breakfast Club”, “Ferris Buller’s Day Off” and “Pretty in Pink”.
Please leave your favorite memories from his films in the comments, as he no doubt touched many of you with his quintessential teen flicks.
And ya know, watch this sweet Breakfast Club montage video I found on YouTube:
Devastating. Simply… devastating. RIP, Mr. Hughes. And thanks for the wonderful movies.
He was way more important and influential in my life than MJ ever was. It’s really sad to see him go, but I highly recommend watching “she’s having a baby”. His words translated amazingly well to the screen and his films are more than iconic. sad.
Rest in peace! Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club & Pretty In Pink are like 3 of the best teen movies EVER! :) What a talent!! xx
Uncle Buck might be my favorite movie of all time. Others like Planes Trains and Automobiles, Dennis the Menace, Home Alone, and Baby’s Day Out (severely underrated) will always be on the top of my movies list. He will be missed!
Baby’s Day Out… WTF? How about Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink?
RIP JH. What a talented man he was. His movies were fantastic. Like another poster said…way more influential than MJ for my friends and I.
Hughes will be missed. I loved his stuff. Huge impact on my life.
GAH!
“I could be the Walrus…I’d still hafta bum rides offa people.”
“Blaine? Blaine? That’s a major appliance that’s not a name!”
Sad sad sad. Even Uncle Buck and his giant freakin’ pancakes.
I am so very sad about his death. I am going to go dance around to a little Otis Redding in remembrance of him while I dream about Jake Ryan :)
How can I not miss the man who gave me this? :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNGIg8f-0Wc
I still want to have Jake Ryan bang me.
John Hughes made some great movies. Sympathy to his family.
I have such bittersweet memories as I recall his movies. I always felt like the outsiders in his films, and when I watch them so many years later, I realize just how much he GOT that awkward teenage world that many of us inhabited. He will be missed.
Yikes, that’s so sad and much like Jonathan Demme, so surprising. Thanks for Ferris Bueller’s day off, if for nothing else that movie alone ensures he’s happily ensconced in heaven right now.
Thanks for all the laughs!
It’s really frightening that you can be walking around at 59 and then…all of a sudden, that’s it, it’s over…out of the blue, no warning, no preparation…nothing!
His movies got me through those awkward teen years and probably helped make me who I am today. It’s okay to be different.
I agree. Thank you to John Hughes. I will never forget the first time I watched the Breakfast Club. Its crazy – I only watched it a few weeks ago and thought I LOVE JOHN HUGHES!!
RIP. :(
I am so saddened by this, he was WAY too young and too talented to have this happen. John Houghes defined my teen years and made more of an impression on me than any other person. Sixteen Candles..I YEARNED for a Jake Ryan. And my favorite line…”Oh sexy american giiiiiirlfriiiiiiend…”
My absolute sympathies to his family, we have really lost an american icon.
I use “Are you serious, Clark?” just about every day of my life!!! And of course occasional Long Duck Dong zingers.
So long to the BEST writer of grandparent characters EVER. And nerds too. That wall of geeks at the dance in 16 Candles… aw.
I can’t believe my grandmother just felt me up!
Oh nooooooo! He was behind the BEST movies of all time! My kids and I still pop lines from Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck, Trains Planes and Automobiles, etc. I could babble his lines forever! He retired way too young and now has died way too young. Sniff. “I can’t believe I gave my panties to a geek.”
No joking, no bull shit. In all seriousness this man was a genius. No other writer/director has ever, or ever will, have as positive an impact than John Hughes has had on my life. Michael Jackson (as brilliant as he was) impacted only several years (at best) of my life. John Hughes has impacted it in its entirety with his brilliance ever since I first saw one of his movies. Micheal Jackson dies and the world acts like its a sign of the Apocalypse, John Hughes dies and its an entry by a blogger intermixed with pathetic Hollywood bullshit. News of John Hughes’ death….just two doors down from the utterly irrelevant/worldly insignificant story of “Lady GaGa’s” “Little Penis”. It’s not you E.B. it is just this fucked up world we live in.
i just watched the breakfast club a week ago because i was feeling a little nostalgic:( i was born 1990 and i was probably 13 or so when i first watched the movie. too many memories are connected to that movie….(soo cheesy)
anyways, it’s a cruel world we live in…RIP
I woke up this this morning and turned on Good Morning America, as I do everyday. When I heard about his passing, I shed a tear. He was such an enormous influence in my life through his films. I own the DVD’s for Sixteen Candles and the Breakfast Club. I still watch them at least five times a year. I will will miss the man who really knew how to tell the stories of teenagers. No one could do it better than he could.
Watching Christmas Vacation is a family holiday tradition for almost two decades now. Squirrel scene gets rewound every time.
I just read this great blog entry here by someone who he used to write to when she was a kid:
http://wellknowwhenwegetthere.blogspot.com/2009/08/sincerely-john-hughes.html
What a guy. RIP.
Wow. That was really amazing. He was obviously a really wonderful person and he touched so many people and will continue to do so. Thank you for passing that on.
RIP John.
wow, this is so sad.
his movies really helped me through some though times- 16 candles and the breakfast club truly changed my life, but i never knew that he was such a nice person.
so, yeah, thanks for passing that on.