John Hughes passes away (1950-2009)

Movies, News | Jay Tomio | August 6, 2009 at 4:18 pm

John Hughes 01It’s being reported that John Hughes, the writer/director of the movies of my youth like Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, has passed away today from a heart attack in NYC. He was 59 years old.

Maybe I’m just getting older, but these types of posts are getting too frequent. Those films listed above are just his all time classics and this is more than a lightly slap for us all.

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4 Comments

  1. Bill Cameron says:
    August 6, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    Sigh.

    Just a couple of weeks ago I watched Ferris Buehler with my son. We both loved it, me for at least the tenth time, my son for the first. Hughes leaves behind such a great body of work.

    Very sad news.

  2. Jay Tomio says:
    August 6, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Ferris Bueller actually was on here last week. One of those movies that I watch whenever it comes on, no matter what.

  3. Eli says:
    August 7, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    Maybe now we’ll get a look at his secret uncut version of the Breakfast Club. He had the only copy

  4. runescape gold says:
    August 8, 2009 at 1:19 am

    Wow this is a sad moment, Sixteen candles and Weird Science are classics. His films and MTV were what made the 80’s fun for someone like me to growing up in.
    I was just posting on my blog about him. He will be missed.
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