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Old 08-06-2009, 10:23 PM   #1
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Movie critics around the world, including my colleague Rober Ebert, are no doubt working overtime at the moment to pay tribute to director John Hughes--the prime chronicler of teenage life in the '80s, at least as seen in the Chicago suburbs where he lived at the time--following his death Thursday morning of a heart attack in New York. But it is worth thinking for a moment about John Hughes, the music fan.

How many classics did this guy create.

Vacation
Christmas Vacation
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Sixteen Candles
She's Having a Baby
Uncle Buck
The Great Outdoors
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Seriously, what a great filmmaker. His great movies are too numerous to list. The guy, whether writing or directing, knew how to make a funny and captivating story.

Most notable to me is Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Del Griffith is probably one of my favorite characters in his films, and what a funny but very, very poignant film. The end of that movie hits hard. Great stuff.

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He was the movies in the 1980s. Hardly anyone in that era who didn't owe him a huge favor for getting them great parts in his movies that didn't go on to bigger and better things at some point...
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R.I.P. to a brilliant filmmaker.
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