John Hughes Born: Architect of Teen Cinema
John Hughes wrote The Breakfast Club in two days. He was thirty-three. He set almost the entire film in a library, shot it in six weeks, and cast actors nobody was watching yet. It cost six million dollars. It made forty-five million. What made it strange was that it took teenagers seriously — as people with interior lives, not problems to be solved. He made eleven films in four years. Then he stopped putting his name on them.
February 18, 1950
76 years ago
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