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Aug 6, 2009 · August 6, 2009 2:44pm. John Hughes, the Chicago-based filmmaker who redefined the teen movie in the ’80s with his sympathetic comedies about the joys and heartbreak of high school life, died ...
Aug 19, 2020 · The Great Outdoors (1988) - 6.7. Coming in at number 10 with a rating of 6.7 is the John Hughes' classic The Great Outdoors . Written and directed by Hughes, the film starred John Candy as Chet Ripley, an outdoorsy father who wants to take his family fishing. The vacation is made complicated when Ripley's brother-in-law's family accompanies ...
Nov 25, 2021 · 16. “Uncle Buck” (1989, w-d) The weakest of Hughes’ three John Candy collaborations, “Uncle Buck” is too dark and not funny enough. The title character is tasked with babysitting his nieces and nephew, and the oldest, Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly), immediately tears into him.
Hughes was Commissioning Editor, Documentary with SBS Independent (1998-2001). He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2017. The Films of John Hughes: a history of independent screen production in Australia (Cumming, 2014) is published by ATOM. Website: www.earlyworks.com.au. Filmography
Sep 8, 2022 · Here are the 7 best John Hughes movies, both as a writer and a director. RELATED: The Best High School Movies From the 80s. ... Hughes filmmaking as both writer and director is at its peak, ...
John Hughes (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed and scripted some of the most successful films of the 1980s and 1990s, including National Lampoon's Vacation, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink; Planes, Trains and Automobiles; Uncle Buck ...
John Hughes (born 1961) is a Sydney-based Australian writer and retired teacher. His first book of autobiographical essays, The Idea of Home , published by Giramondo in 2004, was widely acclaimed and won both the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for Non-Fiction (2005) and the National Biography Award (2006).
