John Hughes Jr. (February 18, 1950 – August 6, 2009) directed and/or scripted some of the most successful
comedy films of the 1980s and early 1990s including the comedy National Lampoon's
Vacation (1983), the coming-of-age comedy Sixteen Candles (1984), the teen
sci-fi comedy Weird Science (1985), the coming-of-age comedy-drama The
Breakfast Club (1985), the coming-of-age comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off
(1986), the romantic comedy-drama Pretty in Pink (1986), the romance Some Kind
of Wonderful (1987), the comedies Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) and
Uncle Buck (1989), the Christmas family comedy Home Alone (1990) and its
sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
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