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John Hughes (born February 18, 1950 in Lansing, Michigan) is a noted film director, producer and writer, responsible for a select few of the virtually all successful comedy films of the 1980s and 1990s. The 1968 graduate of Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois, Hughes used Northbrook & a encompassing Chicagoland area for location shooting in numerous of his films. He began retired as a writer for the National Lampoon's Magazine and his number 1 film, ''Class Reunion, was the number 1 of numerous of his National Lampoon flick.
He is probably better known for his genre-defining Eighties teenage comedies such as The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science and Pretty in Pink. These films come acclaimed by several critics for their complex, 3-cubic portraits of the tragicomedy of adolescence, too when their acute accent searching of the social hierarchies of highschool.
He has been noted as an inspiration for several in the screenland including Kevin Smith, as noted around his film Dogma''.
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