John Hughes Dead

American Voices

August 10, 2009 | ISSUE 45•33

John Hughes, director of The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, died suddenly at 59. What do you think?

This is probably just an elaborate ruse perpetrated by his daughter's smooth-talking boyfriend to get her out of school for the day."

Carl Johnson
Systems Analyst
R.I.P. John Hughes, poet of teens who grew up in upscale Chicago suburbs, wore Benetton and Swatches, and danced in their rooms to the Psychedelic Furs as their parents neglected them."

Allison Clark
Foreign Tour Guide
His movies defined my youth. Rot in hell John Hughes!"

John Standish
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