"John Hughes, prolific director of such culturally significant films such as The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Home Alone has died suddenly of a heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip to Manhattan to visit family."


http://cbs2.com/national/john.hughes.dead.2.1117985.html

It would not have been "The 80s" without him.

R.I.P.

You said it Ken. He kind of defined my generation.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles has held up very well over time. A classic of that decade.

RIP.

Snade

in my book. Uncle Buck,Ferris Beuller and so many other movies he did were flat out entertaining. Sad he withdrew from the world and stopped writting. God bless his family.

That's very sad to hear. I've been on a big 80s kick for months now and it really would not have been the same without him. He made WAY more films than I initially knew of; ones that have not been mentioned yet but will be.

He will be missed. I'm throwing on the She's Having A Baby soundtrack as soon as I finish this post.

R.I.P. John

Some of my all time favorite comedy movies were directed by him. I remember seeing The Breakfast Club in Breckenridge, CO in 1985 on my Spring Break Senior trip. It was a blizzard that night and it was just all of us that trudged the the theater to see the movie. Some great memories....

R.I.P....

RIP John. Wow, this one was a shocker.

At the McHenry Drive In on August 21-22, there going to show two of his movies: Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Club.

"...smoke 'em up, Johnny!"

Sad to hear this. Was the weather hot and/or oppressive in Manhattan when it happened?

Condolences to the family.

I was floored when I heard this on the news. His movies certainly helped to illustrate a generation.

Too young, RIP.

Bueller...Bueller...

Sad news indeed...

Sorry to hear. Many films that I still enjoy watching over and over.

Very sad indeed. I had recently watched "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". I really like that movie as well as many of his others. R.I.P.

"Here's a quarter. Go downtown and have a rat gnaw that off your face."

One of my favorite lines from any film ever!!

John Hughes mad some seriously great flicks. Like John Candy before him he simply went way too early.

Who can forget Candy's Uncle Buck trying to make breakfast or his 'Polka, Polka, Polka' bandleader in "Home Alone"? The man was a genius and he did some of his best work for Hughes.

Who can forget:
"What's happening Hot stuff" from 16 candles

I'm so sad about this. So many other directors get so much more credit, for overly pretentious movies that don't affect anybody's lives. John Hughes defined my generation, if anybody wants to know what it was like to grow up in the midwest in the '80s, there's no better source than watching The Breakfast Club. That might as well have been my high school.

My favorite movie of his was Some Kind of Wonderful. That was my life. In my mind, I was Eric Stoltz's character, chasing after the popular girl when it was my punk-runk-girl best friend who I really should have been after.

I literally watched this movie, called up my best friend Heather, declared my love and we dated for 7 years!

I always loved the music he used in his films!

Loved all those movies.

Loved the "Dong-er" and the way he let Grandpa know what happened to his "auto-MOBILE!"

R.I.P

What a shocker to me this is. Ever since I really got into movies going to High School in the 90s, he was up there on my list along with "Savage" Steve Holland of favorite 80s movie directors. Watching movies like Ferris Beuler's day off and the Breakfast Club as a teenager made them much more meaningful since I could understand the humour better than when I watched them as a young kid. Hats off to such a great director. He will be missed.:tears: