'Home Alone' writer dies of heart attack

Full story: Columbus Dispatch

Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured and cornered the youth market with favorites such as Home Alone , The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off , died yesterday, a spokeswoman said.

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Ansia

Since: Aug 09

Orland Park, IL

I can't say that he was a favorite of mine later on in life, but being 28 and growing up in Chicago, I realized that part of my nostalgia from childhood was borrowed from the movies that he directed or screenplays he wrote.

Sad to see him pass at only 59.

mr steven geagea

Since: Aug 09

Sydney, Australia

The older i got whenever i watched "Home Alone" i just never could understand what i loved about it when i first saw it as a kid. I think he was a great writer. But his movies have a tranistional effect in that. I only liked them in that period. I mean only when your a kid do you dream that you'd be home alone. As you get older you realise that you'll never have a personal slave again.

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