{"id":6261,"date":"2009-08-06T23:02:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T22:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6261"},"modified":"2009-08-08T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T00:12:09","slug":"john-hughes-dies-aged-59","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/08\/06\/john-hughes-dies-aged-59\/","title":{"rendered":"John Hughes dies aged 59"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>Director John Hughes<\/a><\/strong> has died aged 59 after suffering a heart attack in New York.<\/p>\n

His best known films were The Breakfast Club<\/a> (1985), Ferris Bueller’s Day Off<\/a> (1986) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/a> (1987).<\/p>\n

Whilst no-one serious is going to claim that he was one of the greats of his era, he definitely tapped in to the 1980s<\/a> zeitgeist and his films became cultural touchstones for anyone who grew up in that decade.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, after the mammoth success of Home Alone<\/a> (1990), which he wrote and produced, he retreated from Hollywood with his last film as director being Curley Sue<\/a> (1991).<\/p>\n

Over the last two decade he spent more time with his family and maintained a farm in northern Illinois.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year he was photographed enjoying a hockey game<\/a> at Wrigley Field<\/a> in Chicago.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his wife Nancy and two sons, John and James and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n

This is a fan montage of some of his most famous films:<\/p>\n

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Here are some original trailers:<\/p>\n

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> John Hughes<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> BBC News report on his death
\n<\/a>> LA Times article from 2008 on the influence of John Hughes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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