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Our review of Planes, Trains And Automobiles , published December 4th, 2000, is also available.

The Eastman House this month celebrates the late filmmaker John Hughes, the cinematic pied piper of adolescent America in the late '80s. Hughes virtually invented the teen film of the modern era, creating a formula of clever, cynical teens who overcame angst-ridden lives by being wittier and way ahead of their parents, teachers and other adults.

FIVE years ago, John Cusack was a movie geek. In Sixteen Candles , he was so geeky he wasn't even the lead geek - he was trailing around behind Anthony Michael Hall.

Just before the famed director's death, local fan Austin Sadowski toured the U.S. to assess his impact on a generation Will Sloan Late in Don't You Forget About Me , Toronto-based director Matt Austin Sadowski's documentary about the career and cultural legacy of John Hughes, one of the interviewees observes that though Hughes's films are beloved ...

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This is not how Matt Austin Sadowski wanted to release his John Hughes movie. A couple of years ago, the Toronto actor-filmmaker decided to make a documentary about the writer-director who defined the 1980s teen movie with Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and vanished from sight in the early 1990s.

Welcome to Buzz Brainteaser , the trivia feature on BuzzSugar! Every weekday I'll test your knowledge about TV shows, music, and movies.

San Diego California, Baltimore Maryland and Pensacola Florida all have in common with each other as well as with every other single large, mid-sized and small city, and every bedroom community, crossroad town, rural burg, and mountain valley village in between America's two scenic and sprawling longitudinal oceanfronts? Better yet, what does every ...

Alternate Takes 10.10.09: The Brat Pack Posted by Shawn S. Lealos on 10.10.2009 In this week's Alternate Takes, Shawn S. Lealos looks back to the eighties and the infamous Brat Pack.

Published Thursday 8 October 2009 07:32pm EST. Few assertions can be stated with absolute confidence, but one that comes close is that every single female on campus has seen "Sixteen Candles." And even the people who haven't seen it still know the story of the quirky and overlooked Sam Baker who eventually wins the affections of popular boy Jake ...

It also proved that a remarkably similar film, Thom Eberhardt's "Night of the Comet," was about 25 years ahead of its time.

Pretty In Pink is John Hughes's fourth outing into the world of teenagers and their issues.

Vancouver-based rockers You Say Party! We Say Die! are letting it all out on their latest effort, XXXX , the follow-up to 2007 spectacular Lose All The Time .

Some Like It Hot was nominated for six Academy Awards in 1959 but won just one gold statue -- for costume design.

Blanche Baker, left, and Molly Ringwald act in "Sixteen Candles," screening Friday night at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre as part of a John Hughes retrospective.

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Reading the text of The Washington Post 's new guidelines for its staff's use of Facebook, Twitter, and the like, I couldn't help but think of...John Hughes.

At first, 'Adventureland' seemed a bit of a letdown. When you're following up a flick like 'Superbad,' it's kind of expected that there'll be more of the same raunch and wit in the script.

John Hughes stopped making high school movies 22 years ago. We forget this. Lost in the elegiac gush following his death in August was that he moved on after 1987, after he wrote and produced the gaunt "Some Kind of Wonderful," Mary Stuart Masterson's disaffected teen normality lacking the gape-mouthed vulnerability of Molly Ringwald's more ...

If you're looking for absurdist comedy to make you laugh, a poignant foreign film to make you cry, or maybe a documentary that could make you rethink your grocery habits, the Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock has a Fall Film Festival for you.