John Hughes' films are set in the familiar mid-American landscape of well-lit shopping malls, neat two-story houses, and--most especially--locker-lined high school corridors. Peopled by the denizens of middle- and upper-middle-class suburbia, they focus on the discontented teenage children of baby boomers.
A writer and editor for National Lampoon magazine, Hughes started in films by… See Full John Hughes Biography
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