John Hughes died of a heart attack in 2009. AP Photo. When speaking to Fields about “The Breakfast Club” four decades later, he shared that he does not think the flick could be remade today ...

John HUGHES hasn’t set foot in Hollywood for years, but his influence has never been more potent. The king of 1980s comedy, Hughes now qualifies as something of a Howard Hughes-style recluse ...

Reviewing the film, Patrick Goldstein wrote, “John Hughes is one of the few filmmakers in Hollywood who remembers high school. …Hughes’ version, which serves as the setting for the ...

John Hughes, the influential writer-director who captured the humor and angst of the teen experience, 1980s style, in hit movies such as “Sixteen Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and ...

John Hughes died ridiculously young, at age 59, apparently while sightseeing in New York. He hadn’t set foot in Hollywood for years, ...

John Hughes was always thinking ahead and outside of the box. That’s why on June 13, Hughes sent out invitations to his friends for a celebration of life party in his honor at the Meadows in ...

John Hughes, director of such iconic films of the such as "The Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Home Alone" has died of a heart attack at the age of 59 while visiting family in in ...

In 1978, while Jaws 2 was filling theaters, audiences were also flocking to National Lampoon's Animal House (often shortened to Animal House), a raucous college comedy co-starring Saturday Night Live ...

John Hughes filming “Curly Sue.” Getty Images Ringwald later wrote a 2018 essay for The New Yorker in which she looked back on the power imbalance in her relationship with Hughes.

After exhausting himself on teens, John Hughes decided to focus a story on an even younger, and perhaps more troubled, youth: 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin).

John Hughes taught me it was OK to feel hateful. He understood all my neurotic angst and gave me the licence to inflict it on everyone around me – my parents, my brother, my cat.